Laine's Blog, Thinking Out Loud

Keeping It Simple...

 

My Christmas Tree this year is a Live Oak Tree!

 

The tinsel is silvery Spanish Moss.

 

The ornaments are Squirrels and Birds and Lizards!

 

The Star at the top is our very own Star, the Sun!

 

 HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE! 

 

 And this is my Christmas Card to Everyone! 

 

With Love,

Laine

 

 

 

 

 

Sign created by Aden with Lizard lazing on top!

Birds are, Black and White Warbler, Red Bellied Woodpecker and unknown maybe sparrow or warbler!

©Laine Quinn 2021

Let The Autumn Light Reach You

 

What nourishes you

in the middle of a Pandemic?

 

What nourishes you

when political forces take a dark turn

and plunge us into a past that should be long forgotten?

 

 

For me it is Poetry -

Poetry and Music that soothe my soul

and the beauty all around me -

flowers still blooming in our Florida gardens and

the angle of the sun in the trees at a certain time of day,

and of course the beach!

And happy dogs and peaceful cats!

And friends, young and old!

 

Let the autumn light reach you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

©2021 Laine Quinn, photo of Spanish Moss in Live Oaks at Washington Oaks State Park.

 

 

 

March Winds...

 

 

March winds,

and look at the trees.

What are they whispering to each other

and now they are laughing!

 

How many years have they stood

side by side

chattering in the wind

and silent in the calm air?

 

How many years?

How many stories in all that time?

 

Old souls,

Good neighbors.

 

 

 

 

Spanish Moss dancing in the wind on Hontoon Island, ©2007.

 

Survivors

 

 

Lots of trees down in the Parks

after the Hurricane.

 

But lots more survived!

 

 

 

 

Vail Point Park.