Between cloudy nights
and thunderstorm days,
the moon only showed her face two times
for an entire month.
But the clouds - the clouds were wonderful!
building each day in the willing sky,
between sun and rain and rainbows!
©LaineQuinn 2021 Stormy July!
St. Augustine Harbor
looking east, with the sun low in the west
lighting up the sky,
after an afternoon storm.
(True Colors!)
©LaineQuinn 2015 St. Augustine, Florida
An early morning thunderstorm left behind these beautiful clouds for the rising sun to shine upon.
May all the storms in our lives be blessings in disguise.
(Let's hope!)
©Laine Quinn 2021, reprinted from Laine's Blog, November 13rd, 2011.
Driving over the bridge to the beach the other night
the sky was strikingly -
striped!
From West to East -
stripes!
A pending cold front,
I was informed
and sure enough -
that night was our first cold one - dipping into the 30's.
Quite a beautiful, remarkable sight!
Vilano Beach, St. Augustine, ©2020 LaineQuinn
Out of nowhere
nature paints a rainbow
coming out of the horizon
and it's just sitting there!
I see a guy
coming along in the distance,
too far to shout out
but somehow I get his attention
and point to the rainbow
and he
excitedly
gives me a thumbs up!
He saw it too!
And
then the little rainbow
just
disappeared!
Vilano Beach, 11/20/2020
©2020 LaineQuinn
The Earth is breathing a sigh of relief today,
the 50th anniversary of Earth Day,
because her brainy humans have shut down
the engines of pollution.
No, it can't go on like this - or can it?
(There was a reason that manufacturing left the USA,
besides cheap labor -
lax environmental controls.
Maybe the countries who host these pollutors
will realize what they have sacrificed.)
Happy Earth Day!
© 2020Laine Quinn, Angel Wing in the sky.
Hot and humid one day, foggy the next, rain and then cold after that...
That's our winter,
here in St. Augustine,
warm again now,
in the 70's all week!
Not too shabby!
Porpoise Point, Vilano Beach, December 30th, 2018.
©Laine Quinn
It sometimes pours!
St. George Street, Grover's Gallery, and Victoria's Vintage photos, St. Augustine, last Friday!
© Laine Quinn 2018
Whichever way the wind blows,
so blows the fog,
and clings
when the weather insists.
Top of Bald Mountain, the Appalachian trail on the right, and a well trod trail it is.
© Laine Quinn 2018
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 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.
Nestlings are so very vulnerable.
This little one endured severe thunderstorms, only to be stalked by a crowd of noisy crows
and survived that too.
Nature provides lots of drama for her creatures.
Perhaps we all have a nestling within us...our inner hatchling.
It's the part of us that has come through the storms
and evaded or slayed the scary monsters -
sometimes with grace and other times not -
but through it all have come to trust the deep instinct to grow stronger and to thrive.
Spring is upon us - a good time to acknowledge our strengths
and our connection to the fragile new arrivals.
After all, we were once just like them.
Baby Robin, reprinted from Laine's Blog, March 2012.
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!
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.
After so many days of a wild wind...
No surfing today.
St. Augustine Inlet, April 17, 2016.
Again!
Cold air meets warmish water and voila, sea smoke!
Thanks to David for sharing this beautiful phenomena in the cold hours after sunrise, Sunday morning, January 24th, 2016.
St. Augustine Beach.
Warm weather passing through.
Cooler air on the way.
Raining now.
Silhouettes at the beach, St. Augustine Beach, Florida.
The day after Christmas at the beach...
So sunny, so hot,
summer in December.
The locals are ready for some cooler weather,
while the Northerners bask in the warmth
before heading back to the tundra.
Vilano Beach, December 26, 2015, St. Augustine.
On a cloudy afternoon,
sometimes,
all you have to do is turn a corner
for something wonderful and cheering to come your way.
The sun pops out and illuminates the clouds over the harbor.
A little bit of a rainbow on the way to the beach and then this sunset -
It's hard to be miserable under these circumstances.
St. Augustine Harbor and Beach.
On our way back to the dock,
leaving the Humpback whales to their stomping grounds,
and the humans to forage on land.
Whale watching on Cape Cod with the Dolphin Fleet.
This I miss the most!
More photos tomorrow!
If I weren't a photographer,
would I be a writer?
It turns out that I can't post photos from my phone
to the blog,
so,
not being in possession of a tablet,
my blog will be dark for a while.
(Unless I suddenly become a writer...
we will see!)
In the meantime,
here's one for the road.
After a day of storms,
the beach beckons
and there's a wedding against the backdrop of the green water
under a canopy of clouds.
Meanwhile...
Life goes on-
surfers surf,
and birds scamper for their food,
while folks walk or ride their bikes or swim,
oblivious to the special moment that is paramount to the people attending,
especially, one could hope, to the hapless couple!
All best to one and all!
St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia State Park, September 12th, 2015.
The Bridge of Lions,
with El Galeon in the background and a beautiful storm gathering
on the second day of the 450th celebration.
September 5th, 2015. St. Augustine Florida.
In the clouds...
Laine is back from a little break in posting! Guess I needed it.
Vilano Beach storms brewing.
Heat lightening,
silent and beautiful.
Thunder followed, but no rain,
not the first night.
The rain came the second night,
finally.
The heat lightening looked a little like this, lighting up the clouds from within but with slashes of lightening bolts every now and then.
This shot was taken during the day, but darkened to look like night.
Shading the afternoon sun.
Still hot in the shade
Hammock waits for evening breeze.
A dip in the ocean was just the ticket!
Storms coming through everyday now.
Good rain.
St. Augustine, Oyster Creek? 2015
Well, not having mastered the art of stitching photos together,
I still had to share this imperfect attempt.
St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia Island State Park.
It's great when the drama in your life is in the sky!
Saturday's afternoon thunder storm literally rolled in on a wave of air.
The wind was rearranging these clouds so fast,
and then the rain came and it came BIG!
St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia State Park, Storm TIme!
One misty, moisty, morning,
when cloudy was the weather...
Palencia golf course, St. Augustine Florida, just before sunrise and the fog got thicker and thickerer until the sun finally burned through...