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Category: Sea scapes

  • Blue

        99.9% BLUE! What's your favorite color?         St. Augustine Beach, on a blue day.

  • Misty Sunset

        Light and shadow and everything in between.             Anastasia Island State Park, St. Augustine, Florida.

  • THE SUN NEVER SAYS

        Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth,   "You owe me."   Look what happens with a love like that –   it lights the whole world.                                          …

  • Point and Shoot

        Walking the beach the other day with my little point and shoot digital elph, that no longer zooms in, there is a pod of dolphins feeding right in front of me. I point, hoping to catch a glistening fin and what do I see?   A dolphin is airborne! I shoot! And I…

  • Busy Ocean

        Busy ocean today, after the rain storm. The wind blowing one way and the tide the other.   Like thinking one thing and feeling another.   The tide always wins out.       Vilano Beach, St. Augustine, Florida.

  • And Pigs Will Fly

        Have you done something impossible recently?   You must have, because this was in the sky, just the other night.   The sky does not lie.         "When pigs fly."

  • Hieroglyphics

        If this chunk of sand and rock and cement were frozen in time would future archeologists, 10,000 years from now, be captivated by it?   There is evidence of a critter with paws shaped like a human hand, a possible humanoid footprint, with some kind of covering on the foot, and the wear…

  • Sky Walkers

        Sandpipers, walking in the clouds.       St. Augustine Beach

  • Do You See What I See?

      Back to basics. A walk on the beach with my favorite 8 month old friend, who now looks when I point to the pelicans flying so close by above the waves.     St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia Island State Park, Florida

  • What’s Your Story?

        Everyone has a story.   This guy was picking up dead fish just outside the perimeter set by the beach re-nourishment team, back in September. Someone asked him if the fish had died because of the pumping of the sand onto the beach, and he said, no, that he didn't know what had…