Wood Stork's Southern Stroll ...

 “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 Wood Stork strolls through the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina on a late October afternoon.

The Wood Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family. Large, white Wood Storks wade through southeastern swamps and wetlands. Although this stork doesn’t bring babies, it is a good flier, soaring on thermals with neck and legs outstretched. This bald-headed wading bird stands just over three feet tall, towering above almost all other wetland birds. It slowly walks through wetlands with its long, hefty bill down in the water feeling for fish and crustaceans. This ungainly looking stork roosts and nests in colonies in trees above standing water.

 

October On The May River ...

“Let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees.”

   ~ Stonewall Jackson

   ~ 1824-1863

The last words of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, who served as a Confederate general (1861-1863) during the Civil War, and became arguably the best-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. Jackson played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the Eastern Theater of the war until his death, and had an important part in winning many significant battles.

 

As Old Glory billows in the autumn breeze, my view from the shoreline of the May River at Bluffton Oyster Factory Park, Old Town Bluffton, South Carolina, paints a postcard of the beauty of a southern fall in the Lowcountry on a late October afternoon

 

Bluffton is situated on the north bluff of the May River, giving the Beaufort County town its name. The river winds through the Old Town area of Bluffton, which locals call “the last true coastal village of the South.”

 

Afternoon On The May River ...

“These are the days that must happen to you.”

   ~ Walt Whitman

    ~ 1819-1892

People take in the quiet beauty of a late October afternoon in the Lowcountry along the May River at Bluffton Oyster Factory Park, Old Town Bluffton, South Carolina.

A sign on the pier cautions, “Slow You Are Responsible For Your Wake.” A wake is the term for the disturbed water left behind as a boat moves through the water.

Bluffton is situated on the north bluff of the May River, giving the Beaufort County town its name. The river winds through the Old Town area of Bluffton, which locals call “the last true coastal village of the South.”