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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. ©Laine Quinn 2022, Reprinted fro LainesBlog, January 2012
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October – harvests and bright moons, bales of hay and straw, pumpkins, ghosts and goblins, spider webs, dressing up and acting out. What was your favorite costume for Halloween? Mine was Robin Hood! I remember a burlap tunic, a bow and arrow and the perfect pointed hat. I think that my mother…
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Thirty days has September, April, June and November, and you know the rest! The last day of November, December coming on- take it gently, lovingly, wisely! Let the others get crazy and drive crazy and etc. Let's be wise! And Enjoy! Bales in Virginia, some years ago, forgotten by now by…
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Nestlings are so very vulnerable. This little one endured severe thunderstorms, only to be stalked by a crowd of noisy crows and survived that too. Nature provides lots of drama for her creatures. Perhaps we all have a nestling within us…our inner hatchling. It's the part of us that has come through…
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If I were a dolphin I would have to make a lot of changes – move much more quickly, eat a steady diet of fish (without the taco!) talk more, laugh more, and play more everyday! I'd have to get rid of ALL of my things and stop worrying about anything! Hmmmmmmmm… …
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If someone dreamed up the world that we live in, (and believe me someone did) then we can dream up a better world. Together.
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Sometimes with all of the bad news in the air, it is difficult to remember that we live in a beautiful, magical world. We must remember to love. That is the only way out of the madness. Love. Faery Garden at Avis' and Lee's house in Roanoke,…
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Sunny Flowers! When visiting a "Foreign" country, and you see familiar things, it brings home closer and strangers become friends. Holloku, Hungary, which is a very very old town situated in rolling hills that reminded me of Maryland or Virginia! Familiar flowers and great food and company! September,…
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If you put bottled beer in the freezer to get chilled and forget about it until morning, does it explode? Answer: Yes. It's not as messy as you might imagine, as it is frozen, but it is messy! A few years back, in the freezer of…
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What do we look like to the butterfly – clumsy, mobile trees with no nectar to recommend us? If butterflies only live two weeks or so, and some trees live 300+ years, then the span of one human life must look to the tree the way that the butterfly's life looks to…
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