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  • The Writer Spider

        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…

  • Ten Foot Pole

        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!        

  • Sandpipers

        I walk the line…           Sandpipers, St Augustine Beach.

  • Too Many Questions…

        What does it take to open a gate? The right key, or a secret code, or maybe a special knock?   How about a heart? How to open a heart?   What's the special knock? The secret code?   And once it's opened, how to keep it that way? And what does it…

  • When We Were Aliens

      Eduardo and Alexis were relieved after a safe and soft landing on the alien planet, Mars.   There were plenty more challenges ahead of them, but for now a cessation of apprehension, and a nano-second taken to congratulate the entire team on a job well done.      

  • Where The Cape Ends…

        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…

  • Big Old Barn

        There is something romantic about old barns. They are so often featured in works of art, that we might forget what they are really about – days that begin before dawn and much hard work.   You like to imagine the days are satisfying, but like any type of work, or anyone's life…

  • Reflection

        After a long day, a soft reflection.   Too tired to make any sense of it!    

  • A Very Good Year

        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…

  • 55% Chance of Rain

        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…