Baby Magnolia ...

“All art is but imitation of nature.”

                      ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

                                       ~ 4 B.C.- 66 A.D.

Like awakening from a dream, the first breaking bud on my favorite magnolia tree at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania springs to life on an April evening.

Southern Grace ...

“The South …

Our tea is sweet

Words are long

Days are warm

And faith is strong.”

       ~ Unknown

The warm sun of late October shines on Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church on Squire Pope Road, Hilton Head Island on a gorgeous autumn day in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

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.