He's Just Whistlin' Dixie ...

“I find my happiness where the sun shines.”

            ~ Author Unknown

This alligator is just whistlin’ dixie on the sunny side of the lagoon on an October afternoon in the Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

This autumn day was the first time I had the chance to photograph an alligator, and this one lazed in the sun for a very long time!

Good Morning Dixie ...

“Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton

Old times they are not forgotten

Look away, look away, look away Dixieland

Oh I wish I was in Dixie, away, away

In Dixieland I take my stand to live and die in Dixie

For Dixieland, that’s where I was born

Early Lord one frosty morn

Look away, look away, look away Dixieland

Glory, glory hallelujah

Glory, glory hallelujah

Glory, glory hallelujah

His truth is marching on …”

                 ~ “An American Trilogy”

             ~ songwriters Don Reedman, Nick Patrick and Robin Smith

          ~ recorded by the great Elvis Presley
                                           ~ 1972

The peace of a beautiful southern fall morning floats along with the Colleton River in the Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina on a late October day in Dixie.

Tides Of Dixie ...

“I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.”

                     ~ Pat Conroy

                           ~ 1945-2016

An autumn tide of the Atlantic Ocean rolls majestically into Coligny Beach, Hilton Head Island in the Lowcountry of South Carolina on a beautiful late October afternoon.