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Category: Sea scapes

  • Nature’s Diversity

      The diversity found in nature is sometimes mind boggling.     Pictured here are two black skimmers and a laughing gull. Skimmers are apparently the only species of bird with the lower mandible longer than the upper.  Watching them as they fly so close to the water to capture small fish and insects near…

  • Dolphin Rising

      Coming up for air.         Thanks to Jake for encouraging me to get my camera out, otherwise I would have missed this shot! Cape Charles, Virginia, August, 2010.

  • Flying Fish

      Flying fish in the sky!     Flying fish!         The "Fish Cloud" photograph was not manipulated in any way. Even if I knew how to do that, I didn't need to here. Nature provided.

  • The Returning River

      Matanzas inlet… a gull with a broken wing walks confidently to the edge of the spit, hitches a ride on the incoming tide and joins a gang of gulls on the other sandbar. Fish are jumping out of the returning river like skipping stones. The heron on the distant shore is quiet. With a…

  • Did I Smell Like Fish?

        The funniest gull sauntered up to me yesterday as I was sitting quietly alone on the beach. It was as if he wanted to tell me something. I am still trying to figure out what that was! He stayed for a good while, even tried to nibble my toes. Then he flew gracefully…

  • A Warm End to December

      A beautiful sunset. A man walks barefoot at the edge of the tide with the help of two canes. A warm end to December in St. Augustine.    

  • Welcome Home!

      Flamingos Seen Over Marsh in St. Augustine South on Christmas Morning!   Welcome home!  

  • Here Comes the Sun

        Although the WInter Solstice marks the longest night of the year, it is a celebration of light.   It's the birthday of the sun.   Our red star turns his warm face back to earth once again and like the ancients, we are assured that there will be another spring and another harvest and…

  • Can a Color Save Your Soul?

        What's your soul's favorite color?   Blue beach, blue sky, blue water. There are so many blues.   Can a color really save your soul?    

  • The Rain Doesn’t Need Us

        Rainy days at the beach – they're challenging for the shop owners in this tourist town, but what can you do? Complain?   As kids we would complain, then play cards and laugh and complain some more. Now we might walk in between the raindrops, enjoying the wind and the wild sea, or…