Laine's Blog, Thinking Out Loud

What's Your Sign?

 

 

Airport signage, plus one!

 

 

 

May Flowers

 

 

This azalea looks so happy!!!

No matter where you prune an azalea,

it will bloom there, at the end of the stem.

 

Would that we were all so willing to thrive,

no matter the scrapes and cuts that come our way.

 

Perhaps we are...

after all,

humans are considered to be one of the most adaptable species on the planet.

 

 

 

 

Flowers Aren't Always Beautiful...

 

 

If you get into a funk (and we all do from time to time),

can you approach your confusion with love?

Can you stop worrying about the particulars,

especially with people, anyone, and worry more about loving them?

Not in a way that you give love away,

but more that you are sharing your love,

the love that is always inside of you?

 

Flowers aren't always beautiful,

but they always share,

without diminishing what they truly are,

without denying that they haven't bloomed yet or are past their prime,

or need to be underground for a time,

they are always true.

 

You don't have to be "this" person,

or "that" person to anyone,

just be your loving self,

be true.

 

 

 

 

 

Time For Some Cheer!

 

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

 

 

Orchids at Longwood Gardens, last summer.

 

 

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The Promise

 

 

Although Spring might be delayed this year,

it will come.

 

Don't lose heart.

 

 

 

 

Are You Having Fun?

 

 

Up and down,

up and down.

These steps take you down to the river

or up into town..

 

(The red pill or the blue pill?)

 

Life or just getting by?

 

It's not that simple, is it - up or down?

Life is everywhere!

In the murmuring river below,

or the busy street above,

and in between - say, the 14th step,

it's everywhere.

 

In our smallest moments and our largest,

and everywhere in between,

this is it,

the stuff of our lives.

 

Are you having fun yet?

 

 

 

 

 

On the way to the River Walk in Savannah Georgia.

 

 

Back To Basics...

 

 

Salt water.

Salt air.

Toes in the water.

Sunny skies.

 

It doesn't get much better...

 

 

St. Augustine Beach.

 

If You Go Away...

 

 

If you go away,

and you wish for a winter wonderland,

if only for the few days that you are away,

and it HAPPENS(!),

timed perfectly for your safe arrival.

Well,

the best response is...

Thank You!

Beautiful!

Wonderful!

Thank You!

 

 

 

Baltimore's 14 inches of wonderful! (At least for this travelling Floridian!)

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day

It feels like everyday in this 2nd month in '14 is Valentine's Day!
All you need is love, stirred, not shaken in everything you do!
XOXO

Windy Day

 

 

Laine's Blog is taking a little vacation.

Be back next week.

 

Enjoy your mornings, noons and nights until then.

 

(There might be a surprise post, but no promises!)

 

 

xo

 

 

 

The Language of the Soul

 

 

Resembling luminescent jewels,

the colors of the ocean at sunset

on a calm evening,

raise the spirit,

like the sails of a great ship filling with a welcome breeze.

 

 

 

St. Augustine Beach, 2.10.14.

 

Your Mother Should Know...

 

A Little Tribute To

THE BEATLES

 

 

Do you want to know a secret?

I want to tell you.

Here, there, and everywhere

Across the universe,

 

Your mother should know,

It's only love.

Wait - 

All you need is love.

 

Oh Darling,

Golden slumbers,

Goodnight.

 

 

 

 

Song titles from the assorted collection of Beatles' albums, including: Introducing the Beatles, Revolver, Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour, Abbey Road, Let It Be, The White Album.

 

What if?

 

 

What if you are here on this beautiful, physical, gravity based planet,

simply because you want to be here?

 

You like a challenge!

 

 

 

 

Mistaken Identity

 

A funny thing happened when I got to the beach this evening.

There were quite a few sea gulls soaking up the last rays of sunlight over there,

and when I reached into my bag to get a camera to take a shot of the sky blending with the horizon,

all of the gulls and their cousins and their cousins flew over to me.

I was surrounded and they were really close and looking me right in the eye.

 

 

I explained to them that it was just a camera, and not food,

but they did not believe me.

So I took photos of them and chatted a bit and took more photos.

 

 

Finally, I walked the rest of the way to the water's edge,

and they followed me!

All of them,

walking behind me and beside me and some of them flying.

IT WAS WONDERFUL!

I felt like the Pied Piper.

 

Eventually they went their own way,

but the magic that they had bestowed on me had already taken hold

and I was just plain stupid happy!

 

On my way back along the beach, someone came along who looked a little like me,

(even if it was a guy)

and sure enough he had a bag of food for my new best friends.

 

So everyone was happy -

 

 

including the surfers!

 

 

 

St. Augustine Beach. Sky meets water meets surfer!

 

 

 

 

First Robins...

 

 

Out of nowhere,

the first robins of the year,

today!

 

Woohoo!

 

 

 

Welcome Warmth

 

 

The sun came back and warmed our hearts and toes!

 

Where have you been?

We've missed you!

Yes, of course, you were there all along,

it was those pesky clouds blocking the view and the heat.

They're gone now and it's warm and lovely.

 

Thank you!

 

 

Last night's sunset at St. Augustine Beach. Still some little bit of fog near the water, but the sun came through.

Nods to the North, as I know it is all relative, and we are a little spoiled here!

 

 

How To Relax

 

 

How to relax:

First - find a comfy chair.

Next - remove your head.

(This step is only necessary if the chair is smaller than your body with the head on.)

Then, stretch out just so,

and  put your head back on, (if you want to)!

And, finally -

RELAX!