A sunny day with my young friend,
and a walk in the park.
Sometimes the trees just take my breath away!
Yes, there are grander trees in St. Augustine,
but with the sun shining through this relatively young Oak,
it was a delight.
Lighthouse park, with Aden. 3.16.17.
Stay safe, my Northern friends,
it will soon be over.
Valentine's snowstorm, Baltimore 2014.
There are some who say that we are safer now
than at any other time in Human History.
And there are some who say that we are never ever safe.
There are some who work tirelessly for peace.
And there are some who work tirelessly for war.
There are those who worship power and money over and above
human relationships.
And there are some who would lay down their lives
for a stranger.
How will the earth's people move away from tribal ways?
The us and them ways?
The winner and loser ways?
The "new" barbarians,
the ones in expensive suits and gowns who go around in limousines and oversized yachts,
control the information.
But the truth that is hiding beneath the headlines is this:
LOVE IS MORE PERVASIVE ON THE PLANET THAN FEAR AND HATE AND GREED!
LOVE.
Love will survive the onslaught of the new barbarians
who would rape and pillage everything in sight.
Love is winning.
The lovers outnumber the haters on a grand scale!
In time we will regain balance,
and it will be women and men together leading the charge.
Are you safe?
I saw this on the beach the other day.
I once thought that they were deadly,
but the reality is they only have a terrible sting.
Kind of like the trouble the earth is in today,
terribly stunned,
but willing and able to survive!
The Portuguese Man of War. St. Augustine Beach.
Be kind
To your web-footed friends,
for a duck may be somebody's Mother.
Be kind to your friends in the swamp,
where the weather is very very damp….
The End!
Muscovy Ducks at Treaty Park being very friendly.
The thing is that Venus has been so bright in the Western sky lately
that she takes my breath away.
It is difficult to take an interesting photograph of a little white dot of light,
so I borrowed this moon shot with Venus, taken in 2013.
But seeing it is the best!
Venus is at it's brightest now, while the moon is waning and visible in the late night or early morning sky.
Beauty in the world is experienced by the individual as feeling.
If we look more closely at beauty and try to describe more carefully the beauty of the world,
we do not arrive at aesthetics, but rather love.
Is not beauty the particular way in which the world expresses itself as love?
…love, the interior presence of beauty.
From the book by Robert Sardello, Love and the Soul, Creating a Future for Earth.
Movement in the stillness,
more in the woods behind us,
squirrels and owls,
and under the surface of the water.
A balance is struck at the end of the day
as the light fades
and we rush to beat the darkness home.
Sunset at Vail Point on Moultrie Creek.
This is the old Aviles Street.
Come to First Friday tonight to see the new Aviles street,
with sidewalk cafes and lots of new galleries.
Including Butterfield Garage on Aviles!
Laine's photos will be on display through the month of February,
alongside the other wonderful artists from Butterfield Garage.
Butterfield Garage on King Street is set to open in April of this year!
Old Cypress
St. Simons Island, Georgia, 2015. 
Reprinted from Laine's Blog, 2015.
Bless us all
on this
unusual
inauguration day.
And Bless America.
Gleanings From Living Long
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