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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Zen Gardens, Xeriscaping, and Willets
We have what amounts to a small Zen Garden off the front deck of the little hacienda, modified, of course to conform to the environment, which means that, in addition to some casually placed coquina rock, there are also floats … Continue reading
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A Dolphin Encounter
This should probably be categorized as just too reverential to be discussed, but we have an obligation at The Skinny Island Post to report what happens within our admittedly narrow (skinny) field of vision, so here goes. There’s an update … Continue reading
Morning Light, Coquina Soup, and the Marvelous Bivalve
With the sun tracking north on the horizon towards its summer apogee, we are finding the little hacienda once again, after a long absence, washed with extraordinary light for a few minutes just after sunrise. It’s a direct hit now … Continue reading
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Approaching Storm
Wind freshening from the northwest, carving herringbone olive textures in the wave faces; temperature dropping. Dark clouds bloom overhead and on the water. The rustle of palm fronds the only sound. In the westerlies the ocean is almost silent, even … Continue reading
A Quiet Expansive Stillness
It’s way too soon, but it feels like summer already here on Skinny Island. Eighty degrees at 11:00 a.m., and will hit ninety on the mainland. Our water temperature still hovering at 69, so we’ll have that moderating effect and … Continue reading
Seriously Feral
We found the Feral Poet in a somewhat serious and reflective mood this week. To the point, we cite this: Guitar Against Wall Against the wall a brown guitar containing thin, transparent, white afternoons the crawl of stucco shadows under … Continue reading
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Mornings
We are morning people. We figure we’ve seen just about every sunrise of our fifteen years here. What was born out of necessity a long time ago, getting to work, has become habit, with a little pathology thrown in. I … Continue reading
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Digging It
Hard to imagine a more perfect morning; mild, gentle wind from the southwest, wide beach, firm sand made for walking. Everybody we met was smiling and had something to say about the morning. It had that kind of effect, an … Continue reading
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Heat Lightning, etc.
We rushed our beach walk a little this morning after looking at the weather radar, left coffee unfinished and paper unread, to get it in before the rain came. Wide smooth beach, combed by southwest winds, littered again by dead … Continue reading
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Transitions, etc.
Two large flights of migratory birds observed winging north out over the ocean this morning. Ducks; Grebes; I couldn’t tell. Other Snow Birds need to follow suit. Many dead Cannonball jelly fish and crabs in surf line. These jellies are … Continue reading
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