Night Sky

A Special Thanks to my Dear Friend - Jo

Tiny Travelers

Within my Garden, rides a Bird

Upon a single Wheel --

Whose Spokes a Dizzy Music make

As 'twere a traveling Mill

Emily Dickinson

Resurrection Fern

The Resurrection Fern grows on the surface of tree trunks and limbs.  When water is scarce, the plant turns gray and curls up into itself, looking dead.  However, as soon as water touches the leaves, they straighten and become green again.  We humans often imitate nature, don't we?

Free

When despair grows in me 

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

 I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief.   I come into the presence of still water.  

 And I feel above me the day-blind stars

  waiting for their light.    For a time  

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. 

Wendell Berry

White Hills Herb Farm

Lisa Kessler produces organic herbs and specializes in growing lavender at White Hills Farm

1419 Fort Creek Road

Dearing, GA 30808 

website:

http://whitehillsherbs.com/?p=413

                                                                 

Sullivan's Island and Poe's Tavern

The Town of Sullivan’s Island, a barrier island north of Charleston Harbor, is comprised of approximately 1,780 residents in half as many households.  These are primarily full or part time citizens, who enjoy the relaxed lifestyle of the Island.  There are very few short-term rentals and no hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, or other transient lodging.

The Town, incorporated in 1817 as Moultrieville, did not allow lean-tos or shacks then as now.  At that time lots were required to have a minimum of ½ acre and the same is true today.  Sullivan’s Island is unique in that the beachfront land, which has accreted over the years, is owned by the Town and held in a perpetual easement by the Lowcountry Open Land Trust, protecting the natural environment along the Atlantic Ocean.

This Island has a long military history of protecting the harbor from invaders. Remnants of the military are abundant in now privately held military housing; even former fortifications are now single family residences.  Many of these historic homes have withstood the test of time and ravaging weather.

 The life of Edgar Allen Poe was short, tragic and mysterious.  His time on Sullivan's Island inspired "The Gold Bug" , a story about a mystical beetle that led to buried treasure.

Rainy Day in Georgia