Category: Vilano Beach

  •   I'm going to learn to fish!     Not like the patient and swift Egret, or the people who go out to sea, no matter the weather. No, more like the folks standing on the shore patiently casting and reeling in.       But, I never could stomach putting a live worm on…

  •   From the book of poems, BLUE HORSES by Mary Oliver   …Bless the words with which I try to say what I see, think, or feel. With gratitude for the grace of the earth. The expected and the exception, both. For all the hours I have been given to be in this world.  …

  •     Hot and humid one day, foggy the next, rain and then cold after that… That's our winter, here in St. Augustine, warm again now, in the 70's all week!   Not too shabby!       Porpoise Point, Vilano Beach, December 30th, 2018. ©Laine Quinn    

  •     A Beautiful sunny holiday. Lots of families out to enjoy the beach, playing, fishing, reading in the sun.   An overheard conversation about Hurricane Harvey – on people's minds – and another Hurricane barrelling toward the islands.   But life must go on, if we are to make sense of any of it.…

  •     Last call, last chanceLast song, last danceSometimes you just don't know when that's gonna beHold me baby, give me a kissLike tonight is all there isCause there's a last time for everything   It's a Brad Paisley  song that someone mentioned in a piece I found somewhere, and it stuck with me. Can…

  •     Good Morning! Actually, this was a good night!           Sunset at The St. Augustine inlet.

  •   Some really good surfers out this morning, riding the incoming tide.           Vilano Beach, 1/12/17.

  •   Anything can happen! And hopefully we will all be here at the end of it!   Throw caution to the wind? Why not? It might just be the thing to do.   Happy New Year Everyone!           Sunset, Porpoise Point, St. Augustine, 2016.    

  •       The longest night, the shortest day, the light returns, slowly, but it returns!   Celebrate the dark, Celebrate the light!   Happy Winter Solstice!          

  •     Christmas day is almost upon us in much the same way as a beautiful fog bank on the shore. Sneaking up on some of us, while others have seen it coming for months.   Oh, well, it will burn off before you know it and all will be well.        …