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  • Blowing Away!

        Out of one storm and into another. Laine is blowing out of town for a week or so.   Please forgive the interruption to the daily dose of Laine's Blog.   If you have the time, enjoy a perusal through the archives. You might be surprised at what you find there. Or not!…

  • 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

  • Runaway Buoy

        When we realize that we are the ones writing our own stories, it comes with a certain acceptance that some of the "well intentioned" institutions of our childhoods (church, school, family) might have led us astray – for a decade or two or three, like this runaway buoy that, were it still functioning…

  • 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…

  • First Day of the Year

        A beautiful day to start the year. Lucky me, I got to spend most of it walking barefoot on this beach, and resting my perfectly weathered head on a perfectly placed log.   How was your first day, of this odd year?       St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia Island State Park.

  • And Now I Hear The Train Whistle…

        Okay, it's after midnight and I'm still here. No black comets or super volcanos that I know of.   I'm still here, I can see my hands on the keyboard and the rim of my cheater glasses, so it's still me in here.   Is there anybody else here? Klesha is here, anyone…

  • A Trick of the Eye

        The pavilion at the beach is enshrouded in a dense fog that alters reality. Can you see the two UFO's, and the false sun? (Trust your instruments, they do not lie.) It's a trick of the eye.     St. Augustine Beach, Tuesday evening, 12/11/12.  

  • Drink It Up!

        If the energy that propelled the universe into existence is love, and there is a unique alignment of energies on a day such as 12/12/12, then love is in the air in a profound sense and we might as well drink it up in big gulps!   Here's to love, to life!  …

  • The Vulnerable Froth

        Sea foam. Water, in perhaps its most vulnerable state, easily scattered by the wind or the next foot fall, always on the verge of disappearing.   When we allow our own vulnerability, can we trust that, like this froth, we might get tossed into the unknown, but we'll return stronger, better and bigger?…