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Category: Nature
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Since medieval times European farmers have pollarded their trees. That means cut all the branches off and leave stubs. They harvested tops of their trees for fodder and for the wood. The tree looks nude and if one can give it a human emotion, forlorn. Sounds terrible but come the spring the…
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Where's Laine? I don't know. Maybe she's hungry. Did you say Hungary? No, I said hungry. Oh. Why? I don't know! Laine's Blog will be shaken and stirred for the next couple of weeks, with some help from guest blogger, Sue Harrison and…
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I am a little jealous of the bees. They get their tiny bellies rubbed by the softest of flower petals. I wish I could do that! Related articles Bees spot best flowers from afar based on petal colour Flowers Aren't Always Beautiful…
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Christopher Robin and Pooh are walking through the hundred acre wood, just before Christopher has to start school. This is the conversation that we hear… Pooh, what do you like doing best in the world? What I like best, is me going to visit you and you saying, 'How about a…
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It's not too shabby when you have finally stopped sabatoging your own happiness and joy. Silver linings everywhere. Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine Florida.
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How do you sweeten your life? Chocolate? Long walks on the beach? Time spent with friends? Fragrant flowers? It's a good day for some sweetness! (You can almost smell the plumeria!) Reprinted from LainesBlog, August 2012
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"Oh, we are coming down faster than I thought!" "At least it looks like it'll be a soft landing…" "Hold onto your hats, kids!" Those funny fall migrating birds coming in for a landing, St. Augustine.
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The world seems to be trying to turn me into a morning person. All I can say is, "Not yet, not yet, not yet." Sunrise, and birds on the wire, (didn't make it to the inlet in time!) St. Augustine.
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After weeks of extreme heat and still air, this Nor'easter stirs the soul and the senses, and makes you believe in autumn again. Low light and long shutter speeds catch the movement of the waves under the spell of the wild wind. And yes, it rained and rained and rained. …
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Karaoke Night Do be do be do… They are everywhere this time of year, watch out! Karaoke Night reprinted from October 2013, from Laine's Blog, and with her permission!
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