• Seashell on the beach at sunset in Jacksonville Beach, FL

    Have You Ever Seen Fog Settle Over a Salt Marsh at Sunrise?

    What if your slowest morning of the week came with a view? The coffee is still hot and the world outside the window has gone soft. Where the marsh grass usually shows a hundred shades of gold and green, there is only a pale, quiet blur. A white egret stands in it like a pencil mark, and the dock dis

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  • Shorebird on a wooden rail in Jacksonville Beach, FL

    What Is That Gray Moss Hanging From Every Oak?

    Have you noticed how the street seems to hold you in its arms? You turn onto a quiet road, and the branches arch overhead like the ribs of a cathedral. Soft gray strands drift down from every limb, swaying a little in a breeze you cannot quite feel. The light that reaches the pavement comes through

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  • Spanish-style stucco home in Fullerwood Park, St. Augustine, FL

    Living With Humidity: What Your Home, Closets and Hair Quickly Learn

    Remember the first morning the air felt like a warm washcloth? You step out to grab the newspaper, or really just to look at the day, and the air meets you at the door. It is not hot yet, but it is thick. Your glasses fog for a second, and the glass of iced tea you set on the porch rail is already s

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