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  • Beckoning

        There's something about a sandbar that beckons you to come out past your comfort zone, to tempt the tide and time, just a little farther, a little longer… all will be well. Promise!     Matanzas River, between the inlet and the fort.

  • Mimid

        Singing her little heart out, just for me!         This Brown Thrasher had me fooled for a little while as she was singing like a Mockingbird right outside my door.

  • The Rest of the Moon Story…

      On the way to the beach to watch the moon rise, and crossing the Bridge of Lions, there rose the BIG and beautiful moon. With the car parked on the other side of the bridge and walking to  get a shot of the moon in the rigging of El Galeon which is docked in…

  • The Sun Never Sets

        The way that the horizon curves in this photograph, it looks as though the sun might take us all with it, clouds, earth and water, as it sets beautifully at the end of a long day.   But the sun doesn't really set, does it?   So it can't take us down with…

  • These Two Clouds

    These two clouds drifted apart a bit more before coming back so close together that they became one. Kind of like our relationships, the rythm of our friendships and love, ebbing and flowing like grand clouds dancing in the sky. Far apart one moment and close as a kiss the next. This is a time…

  • Lucky

        (To paraphrase e.e. cummings…)   not all matterings of mind equal one iris           The line as I remember it is: not all matterings of mind equal one violet And aren't we lucky to see such things?  

  • Getting Above the Clouds

        That moment when the wheels lift off the tarmac and you are airbourne, just inches from the ground, you shake your head at the thought of this huge metal can flying and off you go, into the clouds on a rainy day in Baltimore.   It's not raining above the clouds, the sun…

  • The Birds Are Singing

        This is the day that the rain started and it seemed that it would never stop.   But it did and all is well now. The ponds are higher than they've been in a long long time, and the birds are singing, happy as ever.         St. Augustine Beach, the…

  • What Big Ears…

        The better to hear you with, my dear.         White Tail Deer, listening for possible trouble up the hill, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

  • Timeless

        When's the last time you were invited to a picnic?   I always say, "Two lips are better than one."   (Or maybe I said that once?)       The Flower Mart again, in Baltimore's Mt. Vernon Place.