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Orlando, FL – Rollercoasters, a Giant Orange, and Kayaking on an Absurdly Beautiful Spring.
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.~ Vincent Van Gogh After our cruise, Luke and I had a couple of days in Orlando, FL before heading home to New York. What could we possibly find to do… Continue reading
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A Few Days in the Caribbean
The light shimmers on water, the cunning coral keeps it blue. Looking through a map of the Antilles, you see how time has trapped its humble servants here.”~ Edward Kamau Brathwaite There’s something to be said for a brief escape… Continue reading
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From Genie Bottles to Ocean Breezes – A Visit to Cocoa Beach
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining, A bark o’er the waters move gloriously on; I came when the sun o’er that beach was declining, The bark was still there, but the waters were gone.~ Thomas Moore… Continue reading
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The Melting of Winter
Every winter has its spring.~ H.G. Wells March has arrived! It’s officially — or unofficially spring — depending on who you ask. March 1st marks meteorological spring, while March 20th brings astronomical spring with the vernal equinox. Either way, the… Continue reading
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The Beauty of Clouds.
The sky is an endless dream.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I’m not quite the weather geek that my son is, but I do love a good weather event — a blizzard, a loud summer thunderstorm, booming with thunder and crackling with… Continue reading
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February Musings…
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.~ Anne Bradstreet February—the bridge between winter and spring. I always welcome February because its… Continue reading
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Tropical Vibes in the Bronx: A Winter Escape
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Luke and I decided that it was time for a bit of a tropical interlude in the midst of a wintry landscape, so we… Continue reading
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January Musings…
In the bleak mid-winter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak mid-winter, long ago.~ Christina Rossetti, 1872 January. Is it still January?… Continue reading
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Block Island: History, Nature, and Beauty
Circled by waters that never freeze, beaten by billow and swept by breeze, lieth the island of Manisees….~ John Greenleaf Whittier, from his poem Palatine. January has got to be the longest and dullest month to trudge through. The glitter… Continue reading
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Dog Days of Winter
January, the Monday of months…~F. Scott Fitzgerald Chasing sunshine in the midst of a gloomy January.Taking every day as it comes… Continue reading









