Laine's Blog, Thinking Out Loud

Coming Home...

 

 

 

A lot of people will be traveling over the coming weeks,

 

going home.

 

 

Where is home? 

 

Is it where you spent your childhood?

 

Or where you choose to live?

 

Is home a moveable feast?

 

Do we carry it within us?

 

 

Is it a place we cherish or a person we love?

 

Is it all of these things?

 

A place, a person, where you've been and where you're going

 

and where you are right now?

 

 

The heart and soul of home

 

seem to be everywhere!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Borrowed from Laine's Blog, November, 2012 with a different photo! BWI Airport in Baltimore.

 

Gratitude...

 

 

Ever grateful,

to be living this close to salt water,

and sky,

and air.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

 

 

St. Augustine Inlet, Vilano Beach.

 

Storms Come and They Go...

 

 

Dramatic skies as the storm is blown off shore.

 

Time soon for some sunshine

and smiles.

 

If your storms are still around,

enjoy the beauty that they contain,

and rest easy knowing that they will pass,

and come again,

and pass again.

 

 

 

 

 

Vialno Beach, St. Augustine inlet.

 

Angel's Trumpets...

 

 

 

Angel's Trumpets, that's what these magnificent flowers are called.

 

This is the week that our attention goes to giving thanks and we turn our thoughts to sharing -

our love, friendship, time, food and drink.

 

It's a time to be gentle with each other,

to recognize our fellow travelers on this journey called life and be grateful.

And maybe we should keep an ear out for the tender sound of angel's trumpets.

Once invited, the angels can't say no!

 

 

 

 

 

From the Archives, Laine's Blog, November, 2011 and used with permission.

 

 

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Some Comfort...

The Band Played...

 

 

The band plays,

the lights are lit,

the season officially begins.

 

But first,

let's give Thanks,

not just on Thursday,

but all week,

and the next week,

and then the next week.

 

I know,

you already do!

 

 

 

Saint Augustine's 21st Nights of Lights Celebration, in Constitution Square, 2014.

 

Have a Heart...

 

 

A piece of grass,

indented into the sand,

did the tide move it over just so,

or

was it the wind,

or did it jump out of its

indentiture

to make heart

art?

 

 

A lovely find,

no matter how it came to be!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sun Rises...

 

                                                                                                      © 2014 David Gardener

Our first really cold morning

provides a dramatic black and white sunrise sky.

 

Sometimes there is drama,

sometimes not.

What can you do?

 

 

 

Photo courtesy of our resident early bird, David Gardener, at St. Augustine Beach.

 

Pelicans Can...

 

 

The conga line, so fun to watch,

as the pelicans surf through wave after wave after wave,

on their way to where?

 

The next wave, the next fish, a good night's sleep?

Who really knows?

 

But these playful birds are definitely onto something!

 

 

 

 

St. Augustine Beach.

 

The Meeting...

 

 

I told you never to come here...

 

or

 

What's the password?

 

The password kiddo is,

this is my house so let me out!

 

 

or

 

Now, you promised,

you won't tell anyone, EVER.

 

I promise.

 

 

 

The Little House on the Terrace, Tihany Hungary.

 

 

 

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The Best Day...

Some Comfort...

 

 

Perhaps when we feel alone and fearful,

we truly aren't so alone.

 

Angels have been part of our imagination for a long, long time.

Maybe there is a reason for that?

 

At best there is some comfort

in believing that we are all being looked after somehow,

by beautiful, benevolent, winged angels!

 

 

 

 

Angel and soldier sculpture found in Budapest, Hungary and very similar to another sculpture in Baltimore, Maryland and probably in a lot of other countries and cities.

 

Back to Basics...

 

 

Sand and salty wind,

and the sideways glance of the lowering sun,

illuminating the sea foam -

it's all the soul needs.

 

 

 

 

Vilano Beach, St. Augustine, Florida.

Seeing Double...

 

                                                                          ©2014 Michelle Moore

 

If you miss a double rainbow,

but a really good friend sends you her wonderful photo of it,

then maybe you didn't entirely miss it,

even though you did miss it!

 

Anyway, so grateful for friends who see and share!

 

 

 

Double rainbow, November 10, 2014, thanks to Michelle Moore for seeing this in her front yard and sharing it with me!

 

Blessings...

 

 

 

An early morning thunderstorm left these beautiful clouds for the rising sun to shine upon.

 

May all the storms in our lives be blessings in disguise.

 

 

 

 

 

From the archives, November 2011. Used with permission of LainesBlog, Thinking Out Loud.

The Rose

 

 

Unabashed beauty,

there

for anyone to see.

 

Almost perfect!

 

 

 

 

A rose garden in the park along Lake Balaton, Hungary.

 

You First...

 

 

No, you first.

No,

you first.

 

The story of Adam and Eve,

where Eve is held responsible for bringing knowledge to the first man.

 

And that was bad because?

 

Uh, let me get back to you on that one.

 

 

 

 

 

In the Garden of Eden at LaDew Gardens in Maryland and it really is an Eden when the apple trees are blooming at the same time as the azaleas and everything is white and glowing and sweet.

 

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Fall foliage: Mother Nature's autumn show

Mother Goose

 

A Mother Goose Rhyme,

just in time for election day.

 

 

Hark! Hark!

The dogs do bark,

The beggars are coming to town:

Some in rags,

Some in tags,

And some in velvet gown.

 

 

 

 

 

The Hungarian dog and the King and Queen in Tihany, Hungary.