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Category: Nature
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Noisy birds in the Hollies dozens of them with a familiar sound from childhood Robin Red Breasts feasting in Florida away from the Arctic Air and ice up North, and stopping for a bath! Canadian Robins, a long way from home and probably glad of it, the original…
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Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. T.S. Eliot From the poem "Ash Wednesday" Photo ©Laine Quinn Boat on a pond in Wellfleet.
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St. Augustine Harbor looking east, with the sun low in the west lighting up the sky, after an afternoon storm. (True Colors!) ©LaineQuinn 2015 St. Augustine, Florida
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An early morning thunderstorm left behind these beautiful clouds for the rising sun to shine upon. May all the storms in our lives be blessings in disguise. (Let's hope!) ©Laine Quinn 2021, reprinted from Laine's Blog, November 13rd, 2011.
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Keep it Kind and Patient and Heartfelt and Simple and Sweet! The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore (Dragonflies too!) Quotation…
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It's that time of year – in a very odd year _ when emotions are raw and memories haunt you. Riding waves of feelings, not knowing where they come from, or why, or how long, you hang on. Storms come and they go, and you hang on. You hang…
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Simple. A little planet in a grand and glorious galaxy in an unimaginable universe. Our little rock is spinning on its axis, rotating around our star, the sun, which is rotating in the galaxy, which is traveling in the universe, with other galaxies and planets and stars. We've learned so much…
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Driving over the bridge to the beach the other night the sky was strikingly – striped! From West to East – stripes! A pending cold front, I was informed and sure enough – that night was our first cold one – dipping into the 30's. Quite…
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Out of nowhere nature paints a rainbow coming out of the horizon and it's just sitting there! I see a guy coming along in the distance, too far to shout out but somehow I get his attention and point to the rainbow and he excitedly gives me a thumbs up! He…
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"…when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." John Muir Quote from Brain Pickings on Sunday, by Maria Popova. Butterflies from St. Augustine, Key West…
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