Dixieland Blues ...

“All good things are wild and free.”

                 ~ Henry David Thoreau

                              ~1817-1862

A Great Blue Heron soaks up the autumn sunshine on a late October afternoon in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Bright-Eyed In Dixie ...

“Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”

                           ~ Theodore Roosevelt

                                 ~ 1858-1919

                 ~ Naturalist & Conservationist

  ~ 26^th President of the United States of America

                                  ~1901-1909

A double-crested cormorant keeps an eye on the lagoon amid the autumn leaves on a late October afternoon in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

A Splash Of Dixie ...

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”

                  ~ Eudora Welty

                       ~ 1909-2001

      ~ native of Jackson, Mississippi, 
      winner of The National Book Award 
                  & The Pulitzer Prize

   ~from “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”

                           ~ published 1982

It’s a beautiful splash of Dixie as autumn’s evening sun sparkles in a fountain in the Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.