Snorkel, then supper

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Food, Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »

Along one of the coral dust and gravel lanes of a campground that's just a few miles past the seven-mile bridge to the Lower Florida Keys, we pitched our tent. A few feet away was the site's (number 57) wooden ...

Underwater Keys? I’m in.

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Travel | No Comments »

We leave soon... won't make it as far as Key West this time, like we did in winter 2007. Back then, for three nights in a row, I floated in a tile-edged pool of 90-degree water after dark - an ...

Charleston’s history, and mine

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Travel | No Comments »

For a couple of sweet years, a few years ago, I lived in downtown Charleston on Archdale Street on the third floor of an over-sized single house, circa 1812. My kitchen door opened to a wide piazza, a courtyard below. ...

Polaroid spring

Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Posted in Home & garden, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | 1 Comment »

I know it's still officially winter, but the fading camellias next to the new azalea and pear tree blossoms brought out the bees in the backyard yesterday. Warblers are stopping in too, on their way to somewhere. I shot a ...