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How do you catch a unique rabbit? You 'neak up on him. How do you catch a tame rabbit? Tame way. HOPPY Easter Everyone, the most pagan of the Christian Holy Days. Reprinted from Laine's Blog, November, 2013.
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And those pelicans flying so close to the water you think they might trip. But they don't! They don't! Pelicans, St. Augustine Beach, April Fools Day, 2015.
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There was a very short story, written years ago by Susan Sontag with a title similar to the title of this post. Once you have finished that story you discover that the author had never been to China after all! Same thing here, neither have I! The China…
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Who are those nervous birds in the tree on the parking lot of the pet store? Ah ha! They're the wonderful Cedar Waxwings, coming through again! Moments later… In the top photo, you can see air plants as well as mistletoe and little flowers…
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Worrying… It's quite a distraction… and then, well… Wonder on the other hand, it will lift you up and up and up! (I wonder what I will worry about today?) (I worry what I will wonder about tomorrow!) Just wonderin'. "Captain" is buried at Disney…
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By the time this squirrel was finished with the hammock pillow, there was nothing left. There was, however a very comfy nest in one of the oak trees. In a big wind, small pieces of fuzz would rain down on our heads. Watching nature's critters prepare their nests for the little ones…
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What do we look like to the butterfly – clumsy, mobile trees with no nectar to recommend us? If butterflies only live two weeks or so, and some trees live 300+ years, then the span of one human life must look to the tree the way that the butterfly's life looks to…
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How tightly wrapped are you? Will you unfold into something big and beautiful when your time comes? Springtime in St. Augustine. There are early bloomers and late bloomers and everything in between. A time for all.
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Ok, I never quite understood how pilots got onto the big ships. Now, I do! These are the men and women who board a ship outside local harbors to guide them safely through unfamiliar waters. Where that man is stepping off the pilot boat, there is a door that he slips into.…
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This photograph was an Astronomy Picture of the Day, on March 14, 2015. It shows a Russian Spacecraft carrying three astronauts, one American and two Russians, returning from the International Space Station over a sea of golden clouds. You don't hear much about cooperation between these two nations, but…