March 18, 2006, 9:16pm

This is the tree outside my front door. I took this three days ago. Stepped out... suddenly feeling, spring has come! :D

I went to St. Augustine again. Last month I didn't go to the beach. So, this time I went to Crescent Beach.

It's huge. Unbelievable. So windy... I actually had my winter jacket on the whole time. Don't know how so many people could be in their shorts and swimming suits sunbathing...

Friends lined up to climb up the Anatasia Lighthouse. It's the lighthouse festival today and admission was free... well, I could only wait for them.

http://www.lighthouseratings.com/Augustine/

It looks real cool inside... Friends, if you can still enjoy walking, please do wholeheartedly.

While I was waiting, I captured this touching moment...

The little kid looked at me before she climbed down the steps. She tried to walk by herself, holding the rail with her two hands. Then, her dad asked the bigger sister to hold her hand.

Looks like it means a lot of trust to reach out a hand to be held.

When my brother was 5 (I'm pretty sure he's 5. I remember exactly he's in kindergarten and the story happened in Sha Tin), one day, he said he realized why I always walked the steps faster than him. He noted that I climbed the steps one foot at a time but he had to put one foot on the step, then another foot on the same step.

So, I taught him to climb one step one foot. While I was teaching, that stupid fat pig had already gone very far and I told her to wait because my brother was learning to walk the steps. She's in her usual irritated tone said we're slow.

Well, if it's normal development, most 2-year-olds can climb the steps one foot at a time. I really have no idea what I have missed all those childhood years. What is it like to be a normal kid? Feeling protected? Guided? Loved? What is normal? Perhaps desirable?

Up there, I truly feel there's a higher power watching over me. I don't think I can make it until today, still alive, if it's all by myself.