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11/11/2024

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11/09/2024

This morning was another illustration of how the magic of light and the lens of the atmosphere conspire to make a variety of color combinations. When I arrived at the path the sea looked as if it was lit from within. Very difficult to photograph but stunning to the eye and heart.

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” -Psalm 19:1 (NRSV)

11/06/2024

SAVE THE DATE for this fun event benefitting !

2024 Branches Holiday Open House
We are excited to announce our holiday open house dates for 2024!
Friday, November 8th is our VIP Experience.
Saturday, November 9th, and Sunday, November 10th is our Open House

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11/06/2024

The skies over North Forest Beach were full of fall colors. The temperature has been early spring like for days.

James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

11/06/2024

It was all about the pelicans yesterday.

11/04/2024

LAST CALL FOR MAP SPONSORSHIPS!
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11/01/2024

THIS WEEKEND!
Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance & Motoring Festival
Daily, Oct 31, 2024 - Nov 3, 2024
Location: Hilton Head Island

The Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance & Motoring Festival, honoring rich tradition with southern flair, will curate a rare collection of automotive delights set against a distinctive Lowcountry backdrop that can only be found here. A Fine Pairing. Designed with purpose and driven by passion since 2002. Since its inception, the Hilton Head Island Concours has continued to elevate every aspect of this unique Lowcountry lifestyle event into an art form.

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Lowcountry lifestyle, elevated. 2024 marks the 22nd celebration of the fine art of the automobile; the passion that drives us to collect and curate these beautiful works of craftsmanship and construction; and the spectacular Lowcountry backdrop that draws thousands of spectators to the island each N...

11/01/2024

The November issue of Lowcountry Living & Real Estate is online NOW! Find the areas best homes and the professionals that represent them in LL&RE.

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10/31/2024

Fabulous upcoming event to benefit

10/31/2024

What a treat to watch the dawn sky unfold. Small, some of these look alike, but big you can see the amazing play of light streaming through the clouds into the mist over the sea.
“Glory to God in the highest,
and peace on earth among those who make God happy by doing the good stuff."
Like 2: 14 (Hiltonheadned translation of the ancient Greek text)

10/30/2024

Thursday nights are for PIZZA! Top Dawg Tavern & Pizzeria - Hilton Head Island has the best deal around. See below for more info!

Join us every Thursday at TDT&P for awesome deals on pizza, apps, wine, and beer! 🍕🍻

$10 (18-Inch) Cheese Pizzas at the Pizzeria
$9 Appetizers at the Tavern
$7.50 Wines by the Glass
$6.50 Sangria & House Wine
$4.50 Craft & Local Pints
$3.50 Domestic Pints

Pizzas and Appetizer Specials available for Dine-In and Carry-Out all day!

10/24/2024

What a beautiful time of year to be on the island!

10/21/2024

When we stand facing toward that point we anticipate the sun to appear, we are looking into light from the unseen sun, curved around the world by the lens of the atmosphere. That light is filtered by many hundreds of miles of particulates, sand, smoke, dust, gasses, and water molecules all contributing to a color, or filtering out a color. When the sun is high the light is white because it is traveling through less atmosphere. The pre-sunrise light comes to us in streams nearly parallel to the surface of the world. They bounce off the smooth water in the slews or the sand mirrored by the retreat of a wave. This colorful light can then be compressed by a telephoto lens, effectively combining light from hundreds of feet away with light just before the lens. The attentive eye can see the potential before the camera is raised to captures the glory. While we can explain the mechanics of the phenomenon we cannot explain the reason it brings joy, or why we have emotions, or even the process of seeing. Joy doesn’t make scientific sense, nor does sight. Bacteria, the most prolific life on earth has survived longer than anything else without it.

I try to capture the magic because it hints at the higher reason for our existence, the joy of love coming from and going to Heaven and Earth. That is a reason to build a universe, to create, to make life with eyes, emotions, and joy.

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10/16/2024

The elements conspired to illuminate the sea as though from within. It was radiant, breathtaking. The camera does not hear the single waves breaking, slowly, one by one, it does not fill the horizon with glowing colors, it does not see wide angle and telephoto at once, like the eyes do. Blessed is the one who lives by the sea.
Psalm 23 in part:
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters
He restores my soul.

10/13/2024

Here, on our island, we have the greatest opportunity to drink in the divine mystery of nature. Today I watched a hundred great birds winging toward their feeding grounds; Joiner Banks, great sand bars that flank the deep water entrance to Port Royal Sound. Tens of millions of fish are migrating south along our coast as this hemisphere nodes away from the sun to bring us a subtropical-winter for a spell. To be aware of these things, to walk beside a falling tide, to watch the birds fly in front of the sun is a holy thing, a thing that restores our connection to the everlasting, a pageant, a mystery that isn’t dependent on us but without which we are starved, hollow-beings out of touch with what we are, and are made of. When we become aware of the golden light of an early-sun streaming into the canopy of leaves and limbs over-head, or into our conscious, we return to our place in God’s creation, we return to our birthright. We are nature as much as the pelicans, the sun, and the humble sand. But we have the amazing capacity to ignore the wonder of it, the majesty, the power, the alure. We can choose to live under roofs and all we see is artificial light zooming by or flickering into our souls. As Henry Beston says, “we become cosmic outlaws”. True humanity is connected to the twinkling night sky, the rhythms of the sea, the feel of the wind. Human eyes often see what they are looking for and not what is there. The most wonderous thing a person can do is see with is there and has been forever.

10/12/2024

The clouds often determine how long a morning beach walk last as it makes it way across the stage. The sea was silver early to compliment the orange sky under the cloud layer. When Ol' Saul gained altitude its power burst through the higher broken clouds. The Toomer boys were out in their huge shrimp boats romancing the horizon.

Psalms 74: 16,
Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

10/08/2024

I must proclaim that God has caused me to live in this beautiful Lowcountry and near the beach. It has healed the wounds of my youth and nurtured a most beautiful family within which I now live. The photos are but a part of the beauty of God's work in my life. They are my way of sharing the blessings. I rejoice in my old age to have learned from suffering and to have learned from love, God's love, family love, and friend love. Love makes beauty more beautiful and beauty makes love more beautiful. I am a happy and thankful man.

Photos 0f the sunrise and the light of the sun crossing across the entire sky to merge on the opposite horizon like a crown taken 10.8.24.

Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

The second verse of "Great Is Thy Faithfulness":

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10/03/2024

The October issue of Low Country Living & Real Estate is on line now! Find your Lowcountry Home in time for the holidays.

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