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Edisto Island Storm
A blanket of afternoon cloud cover darkens Edisto Island.
Calm
St Marys River
How many photos of a place are too many?
“Tides and Chance”
Jay Griffiths remembers time “by the sea” at her grandparents’ place as a child:
“We learned about tides and chance, storms and sun, the vicissitudes of what is lost and found, flotsam and jetsam, castaway luck, islands, sea-songs, rings, riddles and pledges. We learned the sense of a clear slate in the renewal of the tide-smoothed sand.”
Without Us
Abide For A While
“There are moments when I find myself so seduced by the life of a place, carrying on in the way it must, that all I want is to abide there for a while.”
-Trebbe Johnson
July 4th Resource Nationalism
Medusa Head Cases
Tillandsia Via Chattanooga
An algorithmic walk (and respite from I75 traffic) leads to a man in a tie-dyed shirt selling air plants alongside a young bearded glassblower at the Chattanooga River Market. It’s curious how much the misplaced tropical plants above resemble the tendrils of captive animals living a few hundred yards away inside Tennessee Aquarium tanks.
Coquinas, Donax variabilis
Love and Lunch
Wisps Over Tomoka State Park
Hello Falco
The fastest animal on earth perched beside a warm stucco wall soaked with a day’s sunlight grooms himself seven floors above A1A. Barred feathers float slowly.
Aquatic Flora
Great Egret, Ardea alba
Lofton Monsters
Time Along Lofton Creek
The towering cypress on the left occupies an eight foot diameter half a mile from Pages Dairy Road in Yulee, Florida. The oldest known cypress in the world (burned in 2012 by a meth addict) was seventeen and a half feet wide and approximately 2000 years old, so this conifer has at least a millennium on any awkward biped rowing below its baobesque branches.
New growth hints at futility.
Fontainebleau State Park
Azure Over Emerald
