Laine's Blog, Thinking Out Loud

Stuck In The Middle!

 

 

Rain to the left of me,

Rain to the right,

here I am,

stuck in the middle

with a view!

 

 

 

 

More from the Crescent Beach storm, 7.10.2017. That's the shrimp boat on the horizon!

In Between

 

 

In between the sky and the sea.

Rain clouds closing in from the south and the north.

Whenever a boat takes to the water,

there is a story to tell.

 

Storms, sea creatures,

and the one that got away.

There is always a story!

 

 

 

Crescent Beach, storms brushing by and a shrimp boat minding it's own business. 7.10.2017.

 

A Last Time For Everything...

 

 

Last call, last chance
Last song, last dance
Sometimes you just don't know when that's gonna be
Hold me baby, give me a kiss
Like tonight is all there is
Cause there's a last time for everything

 

It's a Brad Paisley  song that someone mentioned in a piece I found somewhere,

and it stuck with me.

Can we really cherish our days and nights like it's the last time?

 

Why not?

This is our life, our time, our blessings,

why not cherish them always?

 

 

 

"Last Time For Everything", by Brad Paisley.

Sunrise at Vilano Beach, St. Augustine.

 

 

 

A Day, Like Any Other...

 

 

One beautiful day after another...

people go to the beach,

the waves roll in and out again,

pelicans fly in their lines.

 

Just another day in Paradise!

 

 

 

 

St. Augustine Beach, May, 2017.

Good Morning!

 

 

Good Morning!

Actually,

this was a good night!

 

 

 

 

 

Sunset at The St. Augustine inlet.

Beauty, Love

 

 

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.

 

Stillness

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surf's Up...

 

Some really good surfers out this morning,

riding the incoming tide.

 

 

 

 

 

Vilano Beach, 1/12/17.

Souls Are Mended...

 

 

Where waves break,

souls are mended.

 

 

 

 

 

Reprinted from December 2013.

 

A New Year

 

Anything can happen!

And hopefully we will all be here at the end of it!

 

Throw caution to the wind?

Why not?

It might just be the thing to do.

 

Happy New Year Everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

Sunset, Porpoise Point, St. Augustine, 2016.

 

 

Winter Solstice

 

 

 

The longest night,

the shortest day,

the light returns,

slowly,

but it returns!

 

Celebrate the dark,

Celebrate the light!

 

Happy Winter Solstice!

 

 

 

 

 

Rolling In...

 

 

Christmas day is almost upon us in much the same way as a beautiful fog bank on the shore.

Sneaking up on some of us,

while others have seen it coming for months.

 

Oh, well, it will burn off before you know it

and all will be well.

 

 

 

 

Just a little bah humbug to go with the fog bank engulfing Vilano Beach this morning!! Happy Holidays!

 

 

 

Egret

 

 

Let the beauty that you love,

be what you do.

 

                                 Rumi

 

 

 

Birds of a Feather...

 

Fish together!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vilano Beach, this morning!

Human, Stork, Egrets.

 

 

Sunset

 

 

Anchored driftwood-

the top completes the bottom

on reflection.

 

 

Yesterday's sunset, yesteryear's tree...St. Augustine Inlet, Vilano Beach.

 

One of my favorites...

 

 

Black skimmers, passing through Vilano Beach.

 

 

 

 

Wild Ocean...

 

 

St. Augustine inlet, Saturday morning...

waves going in all directions!

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, by the way, Laine's blog turns 5 this month!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The Thing About Being Four...

 

Boundless Energy!

 

 

The urge to make art, anytime, anywhere...

 

 

And making easy friends with driftwood creatures...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

St. Augustine Beach, nearly a week after the Hurricane, with Aden, October, 2016.

The Beach...

 

There is a ton of debris and the St. Augustine Beach Pier

is still closed,

but we are survivors,

we, who love the beach...

 

The Atlantic's back porch...

Yoga? Anyone?

 

It's still dangerous to swim, but people were swimming

and surfing and kite surfing.

 

Bless us all.

 

Back Tire in the Pacific...

 

Front Tire in the Atlantic...

 

 

Me thinks that I may have stumbled upon the very festive,

celebratory final leg of a coast to coast

bicycle run.

 

Happy guys putting their bikes in the salty Atlantic!!!

 

And a bottle of Champagne!

 

WOW!

 

 

 

 

St, Augustine Beach, yesterday!

Illusions

 

 

Mountains and valleys in microcosm...

the eroding beach has its own beauty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

St. Augustine Beach; an astronomical high tide and a stiff North East wind. 9.16.16.

Tidal Pool

 

 

St. Augustine's tiny skyline in the distance

on a warm summer morning

promising

rain.

 

 

 

Vilano Beach at the inlet.

Related articles

Paradise?

The Perfect Wave

Some People...

 

Just have to make art...

 

 

 

Most people, actually,

whether or not they call themselves artists,

do indeed make art,

one way or the other.

 

 

 

Beach art, St. Augustine Beach, August, 2016.

The Perfect Wave

 

 

On a day like this,

you can see the wave of energy

underneath the water

rippling toward the beach

like a friendly giant

flexing its mussels.

 

 

 

 

 

St. Augustine Beach, August 2016.

(Just a reminder, HUGE Garage sale at Butterfield Garage, lots of great art at great prices! 137 King Street.

Paradise?

 

 

The Bahamas?

Maybe.

But here in St. Augustine we have the best beaches!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bahamas, and St. Augustine Beach, July 2016.

 

 

 

Good Use Of A Drone...

 

 

I want one!!!

 

 

 

 

 

St. Augustine Beach.

Gone Swimming!

 

 

 

 

 

 

St. Augustine Beach!

What the World Needs Now...

 

 

Connection...

with our natural world,

with the beauty that is all around us,

and with each other.

 

Love

and

Kindness

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guana Tolomato Matanzas Research Reserve. Ponte Vedre, Florida.

No Words...

 

 

 

 

 

Hidden Gifts

 

 

What I have been trying not to say out loud,

is that there are blessings or gifts hidden in tragedies,

and these gifts may not be obvious for some time to come,

but they are there.

 

If we can make a commitment not to let the anger and helplessness

allow us to disconnect,

and instead turn to our friends and families,

and really see them in that deep way that keeps love alive,

then that compassion spreads to our neighbors, and the person behind the counter,

and we become part of the force that moves us away from the madness,

and towards creating a loving and compassionate world.

 

Be gentle with each other and kind and open.

 

 

 

 

Reprinted from Laine's Blog, April 18th, 2013.