The Auggie Doggie

A trip to the Auggie Doggie, as D fondly refers to St. Augustine. Have I mentioned that I heart St. Auggie? Each time we venture in I become more and more enamored with it. It is becoming a thing of concern. Anyway...like I was saying. A jaunt into St. Auggie. We did not really have a particular destination in mind. Other than breakfast. And that wasn't decided until well into the trip. But we did happen to stop, somewhere in the morning, at the beach. St. Augustine Beach. Not the most beautiful beach in the world, but a beach none the less. And, for you St. Augustine Beach people...what happened to the beach? Someone told me that after the last full moon it disappeared. And it is true. Once where beach goers strolled and sunbathed, it is now ocean. No beach. The water is crashing on the rocks by the wall. I hope the earth does another flip flop and the beach returns.

At the beach I saw an RV. So, Nikki, this is for you...and all your love for anything RV. It was old. Ratty. Tacky. All that you hold dear to your heart. And it was beautiful.

We drove on, into a little neighborhood and saw a pretty little dock. And then home we went.

"Water is the driver of Nature."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Leonardo da Vinci

Coming over the wall

Beauty on 4 Wheels

Peacockalicious

RV Art


"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Joseph Addison


"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...and I, I went through the wood."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Jason McDonald

"Your personal nature seeks its paradise."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ibn Arabi

A dock gate

"I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to make the grass wave a little as I go by."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Frank Herbert

"No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Taoist proverb

The Greek Festival & more

The more in the title involved coffee at the Oasis and then on the way to the Greek Festival, we stopped at the Farmers Market.

What is so special about St. Augustine? It has a Bohemian feel...laid back and relaxed. A city that you can ride your bike to the diner on a lazy Saturday morning. This particular bike caught my fancy. Yellow and mellow.

"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling."
¸.•*´¨`♥ James E. Starrs

The Farmers Market was busy. Lots of people. And a few new booths.

"There are so many colors in the rainbow. So many colors in the morning sun. So many colors in the flowers and I see every one."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Harry Chapin

Golden pottery...

...square pottery.

“If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Paul Keating

Sign of our Times


"Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
¸.•*´¨`♥ J. M. Barrie

“Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ William Butler Yeats

Handmade baskets...

...affordable!!

"Before, milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, —And maidens call it love-in-idleness."
¸.•*´¨`♥ William Shakespeare

Pumpkins & Sunshine

Two Orchids

Birdhouses

Glass Menagerie

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry David Thoreau

After strolling through the Farmers Market, we headed towards the Greek Festival. I have to say that St. Augustine was all a buzz with activity! The downtown area was crawling with people. I loved it.

Soon we arrived at the Greek Festival. It too, was crawling with people. Admission was $2. Pretty reasonable I thought. There were booths with the usual fare...crafts, art, jewerly, and anything else one could fit on a card table. The center of the Festival was the tent for music and dancing. Loved the dancers! But, the lines were at the food tents. Yum. Yum. Yum. Did I say yum?

Getting their Bud on!

There were ladies from the Red Hat Society everywhere! Each one with a more spectacular hat than the next.

Nancy & Jean "100 strangers" #11

Two more red hats

A colorful children's barrel ride


"Lift up your hearts, you good dancers, high! higher! And do not forget the good laughter!”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Friedrich Nietzsche

Greek Dancing


“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Sir Walter Scott