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Category: St. Augustine
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You can find stones or shells on the beach in the shape of hearts. Sometimes the leaves against the sky will connect in such a way to form a glittering heart. Here is a heart door in a hollow tree. I wonder, is anyone home? (Who invented rectangles…
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Shadow and light and light and shadows, and all the colors in between. What would we do without our sun to paint the world for us? Not much, I suppose. Without the sun… let's not go there! Let's just enjoy the show!!
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Life can sneak up on you and shake you up with a sudden tragedy. (impossible to see it coming) Even though the tragedy isn't mine, it's touched me, made me pause, and shake. (Does anyone read poetry anymore?) A line from a much loved poem by Howard Moss, …the seed…
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You might think that having dinner under a canopy of Jasmine, might be a bit heady. But it didn't bother these diners, or the birthday party upstairs. The combination of good company, Jasmine and wine, make for a sweet, heady evening! Jasmine at O. C. Whites, in…
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Are you… my mother? (What are you?) Lizard contemplates Parrot on the deck.
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After a rainy, chilly Saturday, the sun is deciding whether or not to come out just before it sets. It did, and the clouds moved on, and Sunday was a beautiful warm sunny day! St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia Island State Park.
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Although the expected order of things is that the adults in the world guide and teach the children how to become happy and healthy adults, there is a school of thought that claims that the children are here to teach us how to be happy and healthy adults. Looking at this another…
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Iris is the sacred flower of the goddess of the rainbow, Iris, who would take messages of love from the "eye of heaven" to earth using the rainbow as a bridge. Iris means "eye of heaven" and is the name given to the goddess, this flower, and the center of your own eye,…
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It's the bird song lately, just before dawn (how do they know?), that makes me smile and reminds me of life's simplicity. Then the ride over the river, seeing the calm waters filling the marsh – all of this soothing to the restless mind. Deep breath in… Deep breath out… …
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The first blossom on Easter morning… Four days later – a full bouquet! Once it gets started, it doesn't stop!
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