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Anne Jongleux
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Just musing about things. And missing all the typos.
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One of many….
Half empty bag of chopped kale.
March 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Rainy Day. Life finds a way, even atop the remnants of the FEMA dumpsite. A weed is just a flower where it isn’t supposed to be. #EganPark #StPeteBeach #BeautyEverywhere
Close up photo of a yellow wild flower with rain drops on the petals. Green leaves and sandy soil in background. A weed is just a flower where it isn’t suppose to be. Taken in Egan Park, St Pete Beach Florida.
March 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Tell me I’m wrong …
Intercostal Waterway, been St Pete Beach & St Petersburg, shortly after sunset 3/1/25. Blue sky, white sand, murky green water. Can’t see the bottom more than about 4-5’ out. It has not returned to normal since the hurricanes in Sept & Oct.
March 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I tried to make a version of a French 75 with indigo gin (delicious) and this weird blue Prosecco. I thought I’d call it Sacre Bleu but it ended up looking more like the Intracoastal post hurricane. I guess it could be called The Helene Aftermath
Wine glass with murky green and blue bubbly liquid sitting atop a crowded tabletop. Ingredients: lemon sugar made into simple syrup, Empress 1905 Indigo gin, Prosecco. Tastes better than it looks.
March 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Good morning!
February 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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After 203 days with his foster family, sweet lovable Griff went to his forever home. Grumpy Buddy has been wandering the house looking for him. We miss you Griff, aka The Grifster, Griffinator, Griffer, White Dog, Griffey, and Ken.
2 dogs, one human, all smiles.
January 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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A few minutes later
Dusk, Boca Ciega Bay between St Pete beach & St Petersburg, FL. Houses and multi-unit buildings along the water light up as darkness descends. Lights make elongated reflections on the water. The water is still, without wake, waves or visible current.
January 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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The end of a great day. I love when the sunset makes the bay (looking east) light up.
Sunset over Boca Ciega Bay/Intracoastal Waterway St Pete Beach/St Petersburgh, FL. Looking East. Blue sky, wispy pink clouds, fading light on houses and boats along the waterway. The clouds reflect on the water.
January 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Despite the destruction, there is still beauty. It will remain even though my funky little beach town will never be the same. You can here’s the sounds of land grabbers circling….
Caddy’s has always been the best place for sunset. It still is, even with chain link fencing. Despite the fact that most homes are empty, somebody still put up holiday decorations. I like the snowman. If they have electricity, it’s probably habitable. Dumpster in the foreground; Sunset at the beach in the background.
January 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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The street side of apt building shown in earlier photos. Sand is piled in front and is visible inside the destroyed dwelling. Another causality. The building is uninhabitable and scheduled for demolition. Does somebody sit in the chair in front, defying our enforcing the No TresPassing sign? In past years, this building would have been filled with snowbirds long before Jan 1. Hurricane Helene destroyed the bottom floor of this building and the one next door. Sand and debris fill a doorway. This used to be a venue for destination weddings. When I stepped closer, I could clearly see the bed, fully made, with pillows looking like it belonged there. It was surrounded by sand as high as the mattress height.
January 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Some of the destruction. It struck me that I didn’t recognize some of the buildings because there has always been trees It fencing screening it from public view of the beach.
Beach house with stairs and balconies destroyed by hurricane 1/2 of this building sold for over $1M last year. I would be surprised if it isn’t a total loss. A 2 story bldg with multiple units. The decks and 1st floor walls have been destroyed by the hurricane. A larger Australian pine lies across the foreground, its root bell completely exposed. I rented the middle apartment my first winter at the beach. The garden was beautiful. I wonder what happened to the other trees. Clearly the property has not been touched, so they must be out in the Gulf. Two beach houses, uninhabitable. One tilts to the side. A bed frame sis in front of ones. The pools at both houses have been lifted out of the ground and filled with sand.
January 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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10 years ago I met friends for lunch here while traveling further south. I fell in love with this beach and moved to area. It was getting too dark to take my usual New Year Day beach walk because the beach is still filled with debris, but I walked half of it. Still have no words for the destruction.
Dune crossover and seeing sun on Gulf off Mexico. The first beach walk of the year reminded me of why we shouldn’t live here, but this wipes your memory of the bitter reality. Sandman. What Sandman was watching — the setting Sun I wonder who sits at this bench and desk? They were placed in front of a house uninhabitable due to Hurricane Helene. It Felt like trespassing to sit here to watch the sunset.
January 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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December 25, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Today is the 2nd anniversary of my mother’s death. Tomorrow would be my father’s 98th birthday. Here they are laughing, following weeks of family sorrow and grief that my 9yr old self remembers well. I can hear them laughing. I miss those smiles. My son now is nearly as old as my mother was then.
A Polaroid photo taken in the later 60s. A woman wearing a stylish bright yellow dress and a man in brown slacks and white, button down, short sleeve shirt, sit in a garden. They are laughing.
December 16, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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The Moon, lighting a path for my heart.
Stylized image of the December full moon rising over St. Petersburg FL. Its light reflects a path across the Intracoastal Waterway. On the distant horizon, lights across the city spear add tiny bursts of color. December 14, 2024
December 15, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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Maybe my favorite time of day. But today, I wish it was occurring later.
Balcony with Christmas lights overlooking Boca Ciega Bay, Intracoastal Waterway, St Pete Beach, FL, about 20 minutes before sunrise. Lights are still visible in buildings in distance. The sky is a bright tangerine and blue. In the dark, the water looks a deep black-blue.
December 12, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Laura, you’ve inspired me to pay attention to the morning sky. My views are usually from my bedroom window or balcony though, as you have not yet inspired me to go walk at sunrise.
Orange red sunrise sky over Boca Ciega Bay, Intracoastal Waterway, St Pete Beach Florida. 6:57am 12/10/24
December 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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Sunrise…Sunset
Sunrise December 6, 2024. Intracoastal waterway, St Pete Beach FL. Pink & grey “mackerel” clouds are reflected in the water and seem to blend into the white-grey sand onshore. A thin band of yellow at the far right side of the photo is the rising Sun. Photo taken at 7:03am. All the colors of the rainbow, in pastel. Sunset Beach, Gulf of Mexico, St Pete Beach FL. Dark foreground of houses and trees, with one line Australian Pine taller than the rest in the left side of the photo. Reflections in the foreground are on pass between Treasure Island and St Pete Beach. The sky above the water is red, orange, yellow, green, blue with slight streaks of pink and lavender. Taken at 5:51pm EST 12/8/24.
December 8, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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Some days I feel like that.
A statute of a grotesque, with wings and horns with his head in his hands. A string of blue and white holiday lights encircle his head.
December 8, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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I didn’t think my little beach town would put up holiday decorations this year because they’re busy putting up street lights and street signs and clearing debris. But seeing the decorations that I usually see as so tired made me happy. Meanwhile…I put up lights too…
Blue & white lights on balcony railing. Lights on a gargoyle too.
December 7, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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OED Word of the year is “Brain Rot”. “Slop”was a contender.

This poem, I can assure you, is not slop, though it was written before coffee.
Image of a poem: Title: Word of the Year (Worms Abound)// Body: Brain Rot/Drain Bought/Pain Fought/Sane Taught/Brain Drain Pain Insane/ Rot Bought Fought Taught//Not/All for Naught/Word Sounds/Worms Abound - written by Anne Jongleux
December 2, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Sunlight came creeping through my window today…
Sunrise, through a window, chair in foreground
December 1, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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Griff & Buddy are happy that we are now officially in Non-hurricane Season. Weather systems: Pay attention to the calendar, please.
White & black Aussie Shepard/Border collie mix named Griff, Brown Aussie Cattle dog mix named Buddy, in their comfy beds stare at the camera
December 1, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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Holy Spectacular Sunset, Batman! Look what I glimpsed when I took out the trash. I almost missed this. I should have walked to beach at sunset!
Sunset sky over Gulf of Mexico. Full spectrum of colors: red, orange, yellow at horizon; greens, blues, violet, gray higher in the sky. The foreground is mostly black with the lights of houses and a few tall Australian Pines silhouetted against the sky.
December 1, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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I found this on my bookshelf this evening. I forgot I owned this. I found this in a used bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, Wales in 2006. Found while I wandered around waiting for a tow truck. There could be worse places on the planet to have a broken down vehicle than a Welsh town full of used bookstores.
Cover of The Broken Span, William Carlos Williams, The Poet of the Month.
December 1, 2024 at 1:38 AM