Hilton Head 360

12/08/2024

Job 38

4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?

12/03/2024

Join the Town of Hilton Head Island for the Annual Christmas Tree Lighting!
Saturday, December 7, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Lowcountry Celebration Park

For more information, visit:
https://www.hiltonhead360.com/events/christmas-tree-lighting-at-celebration-park/

12/02/2024

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11/30/2024

The walk to the beach is often exciting. Today, pink clouds were visible through the break in the forest and then, the path over the dune framed the clouds over a blue winter sea. The birds know winter people are different from visitors in other seasons and are willing to come much closer. This little sandpiper walked right up to me without a care. You can see from the angle she is right below me.

“Nature is part our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.”

Henry Beston: “The Outer House”

11/28/2024

For the beauty of the earth,
for the glory of the skies,
for the love which from our birth
over and around us lies.

Christ, our Lord, to you we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.

11/27/2024

Join fellow islanders for the Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner at Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks on Thanksgiving Day, November 28th from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

For more information on this special holiday event:

It is our pleasure to announce that there will be an Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner at Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks.

11/25/2024

The humble sand, sculpted by the sea rippled and glowed under the glancing rays of the nascent sun. The pelicans are still on patrol and diving in sight of shore. The air is gin clear and cool. For lunately for those gathering for the holidays there was little wind, which made for a pleasant walk. There were actual human beings in the water.

"Great Is Thy Faithfulness", verse 2

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.

11/23/2024

Kinda' chilly this morning. The sky was full of pelicans feeding from the shore to the horizon. I have never seen so many birds. There is obviously some run of small fish going on. There were no waves, just a quiet lap of tiny wave and a ruffle on the water. Ships were coming out of savannah piled high with containers looking like caravans of box cars slipping over the horizon.

Genesis 8:22
“As long as the earth endures,seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,summer and winter,
day and night, will never cease.”

11/21/2024

This morning’s experience includes a short walk down Dune Lane to an empty oceanfront lot guarded by a squad of palmettos. I use those palmettos to frame the pink sky, split by the shadow of a distant cloud and a horizon glowing in anticipation of our star. I also saw a beach path somewhat smoothed by night winds upon which no one had yet walked. It too glowed pink and white in the rays of the sun having just peeped over the sea. The pelicans were on patrol for breakfast in a ragged formation for all their searching and diving. There were fish in the surf, if you can call waves barely three inches high surf.

Genesis 1: 21
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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11/20/2024

Join the fun this Saturday evening for the annual Hilton Head Island Lantern Parade!


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The Parade will begin at the Alder Lane Beach Access and proceed north along the beach. The Parade’s ending point is Lowcountry Celebration Park.

11/18/2024

The path to the beach is a wonderous part of my early morning adventures The forest frames the multicolored sky, twisted oak limbs float there in the red-orange of morning light. When you emerge from the canopy you are at the dune rising before you, soft white sand, 300 feet deep to the limestone bedrock, the floor of an ancient version of the Atlantic. In the dunes the wind sweep around you animating the sea outs, now bare stalks for the winter. Then there is the sea, an endless jewel glowing under an imposable sky. There is something about the colors in the clouds that makes the water glow and the sky turn green at times. Only God can get away with that kind of magic.

11/17/2024

Waves in the atmosphere cause waves in the sea which cause waves in the sand. The troughs and bars we see on the beach are sculpted by high tides flowing along the face of the island toward or away from an inlet. We often call that and undertow, powerful currents made by the tide and the wave direction. If a wave comes to the beach from the left and runs back to the sea to the right the current will be strong. When the tides are super high due to a super moon and an equinox the effect on the beach is dramatic, cutting slews in the beach and washing off the faces of the dunes. The trinity of sky, sea, and land have a powerful effect on each other. The beach is thir nexus and mine.

11/16/2024

The earth is like a ballerina twirling around on the stage of the heavens. Her costume, the sea, covers seven eights of her body. Like the sequined veils of the dancer the sea pulls away from her body adding drama to the show. As the earth tilts or pulls her head away or toward the gravity of the sun, when the seasons change the tides become more dramatic. Add a full or new moon lining up with the axis of all that power and you get more drama, a sea spilling out of its bounds. Here, on our island the sea finds new ground to paint with sea water mirrors and jeweled foam blessing the adventurous with a special. At sunrise the effect is sublime. The soul can capture it. The poor camera is confined to two dimensions without sound or motion of the waves and birds, or the feel of the cool air flowing in from the North. Blessed is the one who lives by the sea. Oh, and a space alien was there too.

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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

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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.