Equal parts oyster shell, sand, water and lime, examples of the concrete material known as tabby can still be seen throughout the Lowcountry. In particular this blog will focus on St. Simon’s Island, GA and the surrounding area. From the first time I noticed this unique material, I was fascinated. Functional and vernacular, the abundance…
Category: Why I love the South
The captivating salt marshes of St. Simons Island, GA: My Happy Place
“….Somehow my soul seems suddenly free From the weighing of fate an the sad discussion of sin, By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.” – Sidney Lanier, 1878 So wrote Sidney Lanier over a century ago about his beloved South, and today this feeling continues along the land…
Savannah Saturday: Haint Blue
There was a point in time when a certain hue was widely accepted as a means of protecting one’s home from the threat of spirits entering. The theory holds that these ghosts, called haints, cannot cross water. Thus, painting the exterior of a structure the color of water will trick these malicious haints into staying…
Final Resting Places of the Victorian Era
I spent this sunny Sunday afternoon taking a long walk through Bonaventure Cemetery in Thunderbolt, GA. Although it is 10 minutes down the road from where I live, I don’t visit it nearly enough. Every live oak-shaded path on this vast 160-acre property is filled with epic monuments-large and small- celebrating lives who have moved…
Divergent Wanderings 