Storytelling and photography from Savannah and the surrounding Lowcountry. Corresponding greeting cards are available in the Shop.
May, and among the miles of leafing, blossoms storm out of the darkness— windflowers and moccasin flowers. The bees dive into them and I too, to gather their spiritual honey. Mute and meek, yet theirs is the deepest certainty that […]
“When they reached Bonaventure, it lay drowsing in the mild April sunlight. As they entered, a flight of butterflies made sparse confetti. A pale, shell road melted into a vista of pontifical splendor. The green of the live-oaks and magnolias, […]
“Bonaventure to me is one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the Western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana […]
“One hundred and fifty-six years ago the ‘woodland’s grey arcades, the flickering umbrage, and half-tropic lights’ of the primeval forest covered the site whereupon to-day, in the grandeur and beauty of a great city, stands Savannah, the lovely ‘Forest […]
“They come, they come from their distant graves, Some from the ocean’s coral caves, They come from each gory battle-field Where liberty’s cause with their blood was sealed; They have burst the cerements of the tomb And come to […]
“Such is the beauty of this old city that she has been christened the Forest City of the South, — and none can more justly claim the title.” – The Cecil Whig, November 20th, 1869 The grandeur and magnificence […]