Adieu to the Auggie Doggie {Part 1 of 7}

We are no longer in St. Augustine. Now we live on the other side of Florida, on the panhandle. The Emerald Coast...in a little town south of Pensacola, Gulf Breeze. I'm sad. Happy. Melancholy. I loved St. Augustine. There is truly no other city like it. But, right now it didn't have what we needed. So we moved back to another place that has always held a soft spot in our hearts.

My last couple of days in St. Augustine was spent packing and moving. But, I did sneak in one last Uptown Saturday Night. And one last walk up St. George Street and the downtown area. So sweet, as usual. Let's start with the art walk. I was in and out of little shops and enjoying the night.

"Painting is silent poetry." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry


"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Virginia Woolf


"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Lance Armstrong


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Adieu to the Auggie Doggie {Part 2 of 7}

"I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry Thomas



"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Antoine Rivarol



"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ansel Adams



"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead." ¸.•*´¨`♥ P. J. Wolfson


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Adieu to the Auggie Doggie {Part 3 of 7}

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Emile Zola


Those were all from Uptown Saturday Night. Then I kept walking to St. George and the rest of downtown.

“If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



“The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Charles Pierce



"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Hilaire Bello


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Adieu to the Auggie Doggie {Part 4 of 7}

"I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Billy Bob Thornton



"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. " ¸.•*´¨`♥ Martin Scorsese



“I was the coolest guy of the non-cool crowd.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Matthew Perry



“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Pablo Picasso


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Adieu to the Auggie Doggie {Part 5 of 7}

"People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Mark Twain



"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Emily Dickinson



“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Dr. Seuss


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Adieu to the Auggie Doggie {Part 6 of 7}

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Oscar Wilde



“A person can be as sweet as honey or as heavy as steel.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Greek proverb



"The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Edward McDonagh



“Every crowd has a silver lining.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ P.T. Barnum


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Adieu to the Auggie Doggie {Part 7 of 7}

"Flirtation: attention without intention." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Max O'Rell, John Bull and His Island


So long, St Augustine!!!! Thanks for all the wonderful photos...

St. Augustine...the last Hoorah? {Part 1 of 5}

Last Saturday we took a farewell tour of St. Augustine. *sigh* Is it our last time before we move? That totally depends upon how we feel come this Saturday night, which happens to be the Uptown Saturday Night in St. Augustine. If getting ready for the move (which occurs next Monday) depletes all our reserves, we won't make it. But I'm pacing myself...so there is hope!

We went to the market and the beach last Saturday. Here are some of the images. The first is a sign that I have loved since I first saw it and finally got to stop and take a shot of it.

“A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Puzant Kevork Thomajan

The watermelons looked fantastic. And I didn't buy one. What was I thinking? I LOVE watermelons!!!


"It is chief of this world's luxuries.....When one has tasted it, he knows what Angels eat."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Mark Twain

This is my friend, an artist at the market. I will miss seeing her on Saturday mornings.


"Gentle people with flowers in their hair..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Scott McKenzie - San Francisco

“Do you know the land where the lemon-trees flower?”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."
I¸.•*´¨`♥ Lucille Ball

“The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Thomas Bulfinch

"The leaves of memory seemed to make a mournful rustling in the dark."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed...”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Charlotte Bronte

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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Buddha

"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Lewis Grizzard

"Magic Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"
¸.•*´¨`♥ The Queen ~ Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs

"You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Renoir

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Augustine...the last Hoorah? {Part 4 of 5}

"scattering little bits of happiness everywhere she goes"
¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople
The beach was alive and thriving today. This is a part of a surfer camp. They were all a buzz with activity.

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ralph Waldo
I love taking pictures of photographers. I happened to get this one of the photographer and his little group hamming it up for the camera.

"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ansel Adams


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“Three women make a market” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Proverb

Once again...a photographer. I wonder how many times I've been photographed photographing and didn't know it?

"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ansel Adams
This guys surfboard was soooooooo colorful! I have never seen one like it before.

"We are the lucky few who get to play in Gods soup and we are better humans because of it."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Bill Hamilton (surfer)

A reprieve before packing...{Part 1 of 2}

Saturday morning we went into town for a few things, and I managed to make it to the farmers market...big surprise!

"The beet is the most intense of vegetables....Beets are deadly serious."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Tom Robbins


“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”
¸.•*´¨`♥ John Keats


"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry Moore


"He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Samuel Johnson


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A reprieve before packing...{Part 2 of 2}

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry David Thoreau

"I need to move someplace where Cheez Whiz isn't a major food group, she said."
¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople

“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Alfred E. Neuman

And this wagon with flowers was found as we wer riding through town. It was near the entrance to the Fountain of Youth.

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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