Afternoon Nappers

Man and cat have a snooze.

Scenes from around 911 Inverness

Old cart path bridge over lagoon being dismantled. (This picture taken right after we got here.)


Another picture of bridge being dismantled. Note beautiful new roofs (rooves?) in background.


Camellias from beautiful camellia bush across the parking lot from us.


Beautiful camellia bush across the parking lot from us!


Whiligig.


Cozy kitchen. (Note new birdhouse in corner - came with its own stand!)


Aren't my new vintage potholders cute? Just don't try to actually use them.


Almost completed cart path bridge. (Picture taken today.)


Does a bedspread count as stuff on my cat?

Savannah Excursion

On Tuesday we went for a drive thru the Savannah River National Wildlife Preserve and then over to Fort Pulaski, a Civil War fort near Tybee Island. It was a beautiful day for a drive. When we stopped at the information kiosk at the wildlife preserve, a ranger was there and asked us if we wanted to see a nesting great horned owl. We said sure and he pointed to her sitting in a crook of a large live oak right there at the parking lot. (I don't think the wildlife preserve gets a lot of casual visitors - it's really out of the way.) The ranger told us that she returns to that spot every year and hatches 2 or 3 babies (owlets?). He said that they are snowy white and you can see them running around on the branch. So now I want to go back and see the babies - I should have asked him when that would be. Oh, well - seeing the mother was pretty exciting. Here she is - you can just see her head in the crook of the tree. Close-up follows.





The wildlife preserve was on the site of old rice plantations - the irrigation channels once used to flood the rice fields now are used to provide wetlands for lots of different water birds. We mostly saw lots of ducks that we couldn't identify.





Next we drove down along the river thru the industrial area of Savannah - lots of stacked-up shipping containers and trucks with containers loaded on them. I was hoping we could see the ports close-up, but we really couldn't get close. Then on thru the city and out to Fort Pulaski. It's a really quite beautiful and very extensively restored old brick fort that only saw action during the first part of the Civil War when Union troops on Tybee Island bombarded it and forced the Confederate troops to surrender. (We saw the movie - we know all the details.) Anyway, when it was restored in the 1930's, they left the holes in the walls made by the Union cannons. The following pictures were all taken by Dad. Note how the fort actually has a moat around it as well as a drawbridge and portcullis.