Category: Nature

  •     If you were a Banyan tree and could send roots to the earth from your "branches" that could shore you up for your journey, how strong you would be.   Confident and grounded! Beautiful too!         Reprinted from LainesBlog, May 4th, 2012, with permission! 

  •     After a rainy, chilly Saturday, the sun is deciding whether or not to come out just before it sets.   It did, and the clouds moved on, and Sunday was a beautiful warm sunny day!       St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia Island State Park.      

  •     Although the expected order of things is that the adults in the world guide and teach the children how to become happy and healthy adults, there is a school of thought that claims that the children are here to teach us how to be happy and healthy adults.   Looking at this another…

  •     Iris is the sacred flower of the goddess of the rainbow, Iris, who would take messages of love from the "eye of heaven" to earth using the rainbow as a bridge. Iris means "eye of heaven" and is the name given to the goddess, this flower, and the center of your own eye,…

  •     It's the bird song lately, just before dawn (how do they know?), that makes me smile and reminds me of life's simplicity.   Then the ride over the river, seeing the calm waters filling the marsh – all of this soothing to the restless mind.   Deep breath in… Deep breath out…  …

  •   The first blossom on Easter morning…       Four days later – a full bouquet!       Once it gets started, it doesn't stop!        

  •     Pelicans up and down, in the sky one minute and wings touching the waves the next.   Which one are you? Leading the way, or cruising in the middle, or taking space away from the crowd for your own perspective?   Each day would be different… sometimes out in front, while at other…

  •     Hoppy Easter, everyone!      

  •   You might be wondering how our little amaryllis is doing…     Well!     Just over a month later and it's about to burst into bloom, on five spindly stems.   Oh my!      

  •     Too late to see the full eclipse, but caught this bit of earth's shadow crossing our moon.     And then these clouds coming in.