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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"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...

Spent most of the day in St. Auggie...yeaaaaaaa!

Last week I ordered a tripod bag so Saturday morning I went to the farmers market to pick it up (looks much like a yoga bag, only a bit longer). I had it made out of a durable material, and lined with a draw string at the top. It turned out perfect. Now I can carry my tripod, reasonably comfortably, slung over my shoulder. And it even has several outside pockets so, in theory, I can pack my pursey things and leave my purse at home. I'm all about traveling light. (Once again, in theory. In real life, for a weekend trip, I pack like I'm never coming back.) Anyway, it is a lovely paisley print in blues and yellows. Soft colors.

Here is a little bit of flowerie goodness for my northern based readers.

"He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry Ward Beecher

"The price of wisdom is eternal thought."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Frank Birch

For the winter blahs...

I got to wandering down a beautiful path behind the market...and this is what I saw!

Along with warm & sunny palm fronds

There was a little spider web stretched across leaf to leaf, glimmering in the sun.

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Virginia Woolf

Old basket

Four baskets in the shade

Then I went home. Later that night I went with D to town. He went to a basketball game at Flaggler College with some friends. I took this opportunity to go to Uptown Saturday Night. All I'm going to say is each shop served things. Grapes. Crackers. Cheese. Wine. Oh...did I day wine? Yes I did! It put a complete new spin on shopping!! Wonderful and fun! I ended up by Harry's so I took my little tipsy self in and sat down and enjoyed a banana's foster. Deee-lish-ous!

"Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Douglas Adams

"Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Grey Livingston

Copper bowl

Bowl of twine balls

"When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Christian D. Larson

"And you will find that you were blind, Until you saw these lights glowing in your nights."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Nico ~ Roses in the Snow

“Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the Bible.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Day One


"Do what you like. Like what you do."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Life is Good