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It was a beautiful evening, sunny and cool, and the dog community turned out in their droves to enjoy the county park. I needed a photo for this blog today, so I took my camera with me and created a collage of all the doggie activity – and there was lots!

I will have no excuses for not posting amazing images for a period of 10 days while in the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. I am so looking forward to recharging batteries and being inspired by scenery that I’m told is akin to complete sensory overload. In the meantime, I will continue to do my job as best I can, walk the dog when I get home, exercise as often as I can and post pics of local scenes, this being from downtown, Church Street.

And so the end of another weekend, winding down, eating homemade pizza (even the pizza bread was homemade) and drinking some red wine with friends, contemplating the week ahead.

Fun day – breakfast at the Lost Dog with Cos, then took Logan to the JICP to socialize with all his dog buddies, got all my errands crossed off my list, and later headed out to Irvin Vineyards on Wadmalaw Island for their annual “grape stomping festival”. While I was in the area, I re-visited some of my favorite haunts, one being this row of mailboxes on Legare Farms, Johns Island. Summmer is on the way out. It was cooler this weekend by far, and I believe the temperature will drop by 10 degrees next week.

I haven’t written since Monday, mainly because I didn’t feel like it. Anyway, here’s to the weekend. This was a scene that caused me to pull over on the connector this evening and take a photograph. The rainbow was intact – a full 180 degrees, which the lens couldn’t capture, but one end seemed to dump straight on top of St. Michaels church.

I have no idea what this was all about, but it looked like fun. My guess is students working on some creative assignment. Happy Monday y’all.

Anyone else remember that song from Max Bygaves? Max Who? That’s how I feel at the end of a weekend. I really do enjoy my weekends. This afternoon we did a family photo shoot at Folly Beach, and this is one of my favorite shots. After I had showered off the salt spray and sand, my friend Joost from Savannah and I headed out for some simple Greek fare at Athens Restaurant on Maybank. Good night!

The end of another week – gosh they are flying by. I’m already thinking about Thanksgiving! Actually I’m really thinking and planning for my upcoming trip to Yellowstone and the Tetons next month. Going to be spending 10 days in big sky country, in the fall. Crisp mornings and cool evenings, great scenery, geysers, bears …what!! That’s one thing I still have to buy – bear pepper spray. I’ve done enough research to figure that pepper spray would be a prudent accessory to tote along with my camera equipment. In the meantime, this image was shot this evening along Folly Road. I think they are wood storks and white egrets, but feel free to correct me.

It’s been a South African tradition for years – making homemade boerewors (literally translated “farmers sausage”.) When we first moved to the USA, we knew we needed to be self-sufficient in terms of ongoing supplies of this ethnic delicacy. Since it is quite a production; buying the meat, skins, spices, and then grinding it, stuffing it, bagging it, etc., we make at least 60 pounds at a time. Those involved are well-trained, and have specific skills. Mine is feeding the ground meat into the grinder consistently so that the skins are filled evenly, efficiently and with no airlocks. OK – more than you ever wanted to know about making homemade sausage.