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Standing in line at the Winn Dixie one morning,
someone said something that stayed with me...
It went something like this in response to another person apologizing for taking so long...
If I was in a hurry, I would have gotten here earlier...
I liked that.
Once in awhile, we do hurry, but it is all the same in the end, isn't it?
A minute here and a minute there.
As Rumi says,
We are all going through the same gate.
Egret in a great hurry! Or so I imagine in St. Augustine, Florida!
On summer's beach...
a nearly full and a blue moon rising just over there...
Life is good!
St. Augustine Beach, Florida, last evening...
Did you know that the brain of the octopus is unlike anything else on the planet?
Octopuses are among the most intelligent and behaviorally flexible of all invertebrates.
Wood eye?
Wooden art in Nassau Harbor.
Gravity, according to Webster, is the force of attraction
by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the
center of the earth.
Tilting the camera, does not affect the effect of gravity,
but it might make you dizzy!
(Hey, where'd the ball go?)
St. Augustine Beach, tilted and not tilted.
Reprinted from Laines Blog, July 2014, with permission!
What do you do when your destination is just over there,
but there is a downpour of rain so fierce that if you stepped out for a moment you would be drenched,
and a river is forming between you and your destination,
and your umbrella is safe and dry at home?
You make lemonade!
Or you take some photos and hope for the best!
The first shot is the Lightner Museum, home also to St. Augustine City offices, through the rain streaked window. The second photo is through the windshield, looking toward Flagler Auditorium and the third is potential shelter in an ice cream shop so close, but so far away!
You can see the Lightner reflected in the shop window, or is it the Casa Monica?
Once the rain let up some, I carried my shoes with me across the street and got my business done in no time thanks to the friendly people there.
A lovely orange and a lovely blue
here is Paradise.
Bird of Paradise, up close in the front yard, St. Augustine, Florida.
(Look for Laine at the Historic Market this coming Sunday, July12th, in the morning.)
I guess we aren't the only ones who decorate our homes.
It's a nice touch,
don't you think?
Yesterday's answer...Mac on the left with the aqua background and NASA on the right or bottom.
Thanks for playing "Can You Guess?"
I had fun!
Nasa? or Mac?
Which shot is from the inside of a Mac computer and which is from NASA?
It's a daisy!
What's This?
The first guess what this is was a detail of this shot of an Anhinga in the Everglades, Florida.
Here is another shot of the same creature to get a better perspective...
The second Guess what this is was a detail of this shot...
an alligator just at the surface of a leaf covered river's edge.
More to come!!!
Another piece of Friday's puzzle...
...the better to see you with, my dear.
This one is too easy, but here it goes...
It's a ?
What's this?
Today will begin a series of details of photos and the game is,
can you guess what the photo is?
(of)!
(help me with my grammar here, folks!)
Good Luck!
Thanks to David Gardner, our resident morning person for sharing his sunrise photographs.
This stunner is from yesterday, July 7th, 2015.
Wish I had been there!
St. Augustine Beach, ©David Gardner, 2015.
When I spotted this spider weaving her web, there were only two rows completed.
By the time the camera came out,
voila!
She would take one leg and latch onto the strand that was to receive the new link,
and another leg would deliver that new link all the while she was walking
and probably talking to herself,
never mind where the silk is coming from.
A work of art in a matter of minutes,
and then swaying in the wind that comes with the afternoon storms,
showing the strength of her work as well as the beauty.
(And that's the spider that I didn't know which end was top and bottom.
Well, I know now!)
St. Augustine's fireworks display did not disappoint!
Happy 4th, 5th and 6th of July!
4th of July fireworks, St. Augustine Florida, ©2015, Laine Quinn.
Laine (me, I) has begun to set up in the Historic Market in the Plaza de la Constitution in St. Augustine.
On Sale are photos of St. Augustine and from my travels near and far.
This is a month to month commitment, so stay posted for next month's news.
I'll be there Saturday this week, July 4th and next Saturday as well, July 11th.
Also, I have developed some prints from my favorite blog posts and here is a sample of that!
And Drum Roll please...
Laine's new artistic venue,
painting on silk scarves.
Always a friend of the silk scarf and bandana, this was an easy transition to make.
Here is a sample of the first crop, hanging on the line to dry.
Wish me luck and maybe I will see you there!
The Schooner.
The setting sun.
The incoming tide.
A day ends.
Night begins.
St. Augustine inlet, the Schooner Freedom sailing in.