Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." ~ Hal Borland Friday In a previous post, I had mentioned (Okay I was vague-blogging) a family health issue which was part of the reason I had flown home. I also have to thank you guys so much for the outpouring of love, prayers, and just [...]
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." ~ Aaron Siskind One or a Dozen If you know me, you know I am that annoying person who doesn't take just one picture, but a dozen. And [...]
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul." ~ Luther Burbank Second Half of the Day I feel like I am talking about two completely different days. Not only did we do completely opposite activities from the morning to the afternoon, but the weather also [...]
"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion."~ George Grey Early Mornings It wouldn't be a true trip if I didn't get [...]
"I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening." ~ Julie Roberts Locally Owned Coffee Shops One of the first things I research when I travel to a new city are the local coffee shops. Obviously I love my coffee and while I might judge a place if they don't have a Starbucks, [...]
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." ~ Marcus Aurelius Another Friday and with the smorgasbord of topics and updates, I felt there was only one way to do this, an edition of Friday Favorites. Firstly I am so sorry you guys. I [...]
"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made." [...]
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow City Heights I have been to the top of the Empire Building four times, now. All at night and while the darkness hides some of the [...]
"Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down." ~ Vanessa Paradis Horton House After our morning adventure at Driftwood Beach we went back to the hotel to grab breakfast and check out. I was sad to be saying good-bye to Jekyll Island and the incredibly friendly staff at the Westin. Our next stop [...]
"A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean." ~ Henry Grunwald Morning Drizzle Ever since Rhiannon moved to Georgia and discovered Driftwood Beach, I have wanted to go here. Her pictures are stunning and I could [...]