• Wooden dock over the water at sunset in St. Augustine Beach, FL

    What a Slow Coastal Morning Feels Like in Vilano Beach

    What does it feel like to wake up somewhere that is in no hurry at all? The light comes up over the Atlantic first, the way it always does on this side of Florida, and Vilano Beach takes its time waking with it. A few early walkers are already on the sand. A pelican works the shallows. Across the in

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  • Tall palm against a blue sky in St. Augustine, FL

    Rediscovering the Outdoors Year-Round in St. Johns County

    What happens to your body and your days when the outdoors is open all year? A man who moved to St. Johns County from the Northeast described the shift like this: up home, he was an indoor person nine months of the year, not by choice but by weather. He walked when he could, hibernated when he could

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  • Oceanfront home framed by palms and dunes in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

    The Evening Before the Fourth in Ponte Vedra Beach

    Have you ever spent a July 3rd evening in a neighborhood that made you feel completely at home? The light is still long at seven-thirty on the evening of July 3rd in Ponte Vedra Beach -- that late summer light that comes in low and gold through the oak canopy and turns the Spanish moss into somethin

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