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I was scheduled to attend a financial seminar after work this evening where experts were lecturing on interpreting new tax laws, estate planning, and investing in “troubled times”, and after the first 20 minute go-around I skipped out and headed for the Folly Islands, and one of my favorite spots, Backman Seafoods. There I found Thomas and Elliot, eating icecream and watching the flooding tide. They could care less about the new tax laws, and somehow they do just fine.

Or as my more technically inclined friend Marty, said “There is an extreme high tide this evening. It supposed to peak at 8:31 in Charleston harbor with predictions of the tide being from 2 1/2′ to 3′ above normal high tide. As you know “normal” high tide is + 5.0′ MSL, or about the elevation of the usual marsh line where the marsh becomes “high ground”.”

Today was set aside for a trip to Savannah to visit the famed “Bridal Mart” in search of the dress. We really didn’t get going until about 11am and then by the time we got to Savannah everyone was starving, so after lunch at the Crackerbarrel at exit 94 it was about 3pm before we even found the store. It is totally overwhelming to walk into the prospect of hundreds of white dresses hanging on racks – where does one start… Leigh walked over to a dress on a mannequin, fell in love with it, tried it on (fit like a glove) and so we bought it. We spent less time in the store than in Crackerbarrel and everyone was ecstatic because it was definitely made for her. Mercifully so, because by the time we hauled back up the I-95, crawled a few miles because of an accident, and finally made it home, everyone was exhausted. But …. we’ve got the dress!!

What better way to wind down the work week than to take a sunset cruise of the Charleston harbor. This week has been busy at work, and evenings have been full of one thing and another, but the weekend is here and we were having fun doing the Titanic thing on the front of the boat, which is what this image is all about. Thanks Rick and Shirley!

Theoretically it sounds easy, but sometimes there’s just nothing to photograph through the course of a day. Feeling compelled to find SOMETHING within a close radius of home, I shot this piece of marsh at high tide and vignetted it just for a different look. My camera tells me I actually took over 1200 photographs over the weekend. After that, you don’t really feel like picking it up for at least a couple of days. I would love to get some dramatic lightning shots and we have had plenty of lightning lately, but I need a lookout point to shoot from – protected of course. Working on that.

Wow the photo for this day sure contrasts starkly with the previous one. Weather still crazy in the South – brilliant sunshine one minute and downpours the next. Met a friend for breakfast at 8am so I got an early jump on the day. I have been meaning to throw out some pitiful looking spring pansies and other things for ages and today was the day. I bought some new plants and got busy re-potting. Logan joined in the fun and ate lots of dirt in the process. Good fiber!

Go figure how these climatic cycles work. It seems we have had rainfall shortages for a few years, and over the past few weeks we have been inundated with volatile weather, storms, rain and wind. Watching the storm front bear down on us this morning was eerie – it came so fast. I was out running errands and ended up trying to get back to the office before all hell broke loose. The image captures the storm minus about 5 minutes. Later it cleared a little and I managed to get some pool time in before Diane came over for dinner.