Recent pics of g....

She Loves the beach, about as much as her great grandmother and mother combined!

An ohhhh so fun weekend with her boyfriend Billy Barfield....

first ever tubby time with a boy....and if her daddy knew it would be her last.

Loving on her dad...she cried the whole way home from the airport. break one's heart.

After a long day at school...what up dogs?

The magic of Tybee Beach

"It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters."
— Pat Conroy

I have never witnessed a more magical, ever changing beach as this one. Every time i cross my boardwalk, over the dunes and unveil the beauty of this beach, I am amazed. Its never the same and always gorgeous...how is that? a love like this, to that, with all its different faces it is still loved..more and more and for all captivating reasons. One day it has thousands of charming simple shells the next none, one the sun shines like the moon, the waves look as pristine & peaceful as a lake. It seems like infinite miles of sand, with the radiant sun beaming and the wild, untamed, headstrong surf. The ocean, the beach, the moon, the sun...the products of the coast are as mysterious as they are breathtakingly divine. It brings me to life.

January 27th

Katie and I...and a car. The beauty of Isle of Hope and the Wormsloe Plantation. 1 1/2 miles of live oaks...absolutely breathtaking to say the very least. Ended the day at my favorite unwind....a beer and a dozen on the marsh. PERFECT!

January 26

Fort Pulaski....gorgeous day. windy. many motes for gigi to fall into...might have not kept the yankee's out but sure made me nervous!!

In Atlanta, the first question is 'What's your business?' In Macon, it is 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they want your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah, the first question is 'What would you like to drink?'

-Berendt,John
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

How true & the same goes for the food...As the Olde Pink House saw last week...

May, 'I'll have a water, miller lite, & a bloody mary (ordered all at the same time). Crab beignets, mac and cheese jalepeno poppers, & fried green tomatoes. The fried whole flounder, butter beans, and chips. To start.

Local 11 Ten with Katie and Lee...quail with a spinach garlic hash, squid ink pasta, delicious tacos of some sort, and tagliatelle bolognese. Wine & entrancing conversation. Good times with my new & old friends, more to come!

Our favorite pizza: 16 slices delivered please.

The life of a novice cobbler on the beach.

Actually constructing a flat sandal. Designing, picking out leather, cutting it, turning it, sewing it. Building the sole and inner sole. Next week we will head to the Gulf stream factory where will construct our heels. CRAZY!

The afternoons with Gigi on the Beach...she loves it. Chasing the gulls, throwing her hands in the air as they fly over her head, digging like a puppy in the sand, collecting shells...the beach and it endless entertainment.

Another great Lunch at Cha-Bella with Katie...we two are experts at lunch in Savannah! Gigi joined us this time. This all organic gem, was fabulous. Thursdays only as they prepare their Earth to Table bags, 9 pounds of their own grown vegetables, a loaf of fresh baked bread, and demonstration by the chef dvd on how to prepare the items. 25$ delivered to your door!! wow.

We will sleep for days....

and days...

gigi...maybe months.