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The sun was setting and shining shyly on the waves after hiding all day, and then this! Rainbow after Isaac, Ormond Beach, Forida.
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Rain showers over the ocean. The outer edges of a tropical storm are headed our way. Some people break out the champagne when a hurracane is imminent, (after all faithful and diligent preparations have been completed, of course). Others worry for days and nights in advance. When I was a kid…
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Sometimes numbers are difficult to wrap your mind around. The banana spider, or golden orb spider, or writer spider, is the oldest surviving spider on earth. To the tune of 165 million years! That's a really really long time. Compare that to humans and our nearest ancestors, the chimpanzee, and we clock…
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Pelicans not only pose wonderfully for photo ops, they groom themselves with those ten foot beaks, and even though you can observe this with your very own eyes, it is still a mystery how they manage to do it!
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I walk the line… Sandpipers, St Augustine Beach.
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Where the Cape ends in a fantastic spiral, there is Provincetown, surrounded by water on three sides and shimmering with a luminosity that bounces off the sky and the land and the water. This unique juxtaposition of ocean, sand, bay, and light is one of the reasons that Cape Cod is so…
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After a long day, a soft reflection. Too tired to make any sense of it!
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The year that this photo was shot was a very good year for whale watching. "Very good," being defined as lots and lots of whales. What's a very good year for you? Lots and lots of…? Fill in the blank. Sometimes our most difficult years turn out to be our…
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Every afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock, it rains. Like a tropical paradise, it lasts 40 minutes or an hour and it's over. Everything is so green and happy, especially the mosquitos! @#%$&^* Even so, it is beautiful and so lovely to have the rain. St. Augustine Beach, between…
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