Drive to the Beach

It rained alot here this weekend.

 Saturday it poured hard and heavy several times, which prevented us from doing much outside.

 So we kept busy with inside projects. I am still so busy organizing so many things and we painted a hallway too. Little granddaughter even got to paint a small wall by herself! LOL We also got our house shopping done and I got a haircut.

Sunday came, and the sun came out! So we decided to go for a drive to the beach. You are invited to come along with us, it's easy today--not walking in the heat, LOL! We'll just have a nice air conditioned drive and we can even sip on our lemonades as we go. Here's the marsh coming up:

The spartina grass is very wet and green this time of year with all the rain.

Our marshes and tidal creeks are teeming with life: busy fiddler crabs, egret, shrimp, large wading birds like the great blue herons, turtles, tadpoles and frogs, red winged blackbirds, many species of fish including mullet and flounder, cotton rats, and often, hawks swooping around looking for a delicious meal. Raccoons dig up mussels and blue crabs eat snails. We even have minks and otters! (I love to watch otters jump, swim, and play!)
The most exciting animals you can see in the marshes and tidal creeks are the DOLPHINS who come searching for prey in the shallow waters. When they come upon muddy creek banks, it's called "mudding". What a sight to see!

I love driving this pretty street next to the ocean! Love the way the trees make a canopy over us!

Isn't this the cutest cottage?! Love the pretty colors they painted it. Love the pink flamingos too. Guess what?--we have pink flamingos in our yard too! LOL I love them. (I love tacky things! LOL)

A pretty rocking chair on a beach house porch. Looks like a great place for a glass of sweet tea and a few decorating magazines!

Oh, there go the surfers! I'm certain these kids LIVE FOR THIS! ha ha LOL. You can tell they love it. I would be terrified out there! LOL

"Let's Go!!"

Oh, I just love this little beach house! Love that gingerbread-y looking screen door. It looks so much like my Ma-Maw's old house. Except she didn't have a screened in porch. I spent my childhood growing up in her old porch swing, that is for sure. The memories I will have forever.

Looks like someone has a little gardening going on out in the front yard here.

Tangles of vines creeping right up that palm tree!

Lots of people in town--it won't slow down til way after Labor Day. The beach shops are still doing a brisk business selling bikinis, flip-flops, beach towels, candy bars and potato chips, sunscreen, plastic beach pails, bottled waters, pool floats, plastic sharks, and seashell souvenirs.

With the rain finally stopping, alot of people are either out enjoying the beach, bicycling, skate-boarding, or leaving the ocean wrapped in big towels and heading into hotel rooms for a shower before supper.

and here we have King Triton! (the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, if you remember any Mythology, ha ha, LOL) 

He lounges in the front yard of a beach house

Fierce expression!!

Spotted this pretty little garden! Isn't it cute?

Happy blossoms!

One of Mr. Front Porch's friends went to the Farmer's Market and brought us some of these good John' Island "maters". So we had bacon and "mater" sandwiches for supper! They were so good.
They say the John's Island tomatoes are so delicious because of the high summer humidity and hot temperatures, as well as the sandy soil. They also get small doses of real seawater instead of all treated and chlorinated water. Whatever it is, the farms over there are known for their delicious tomatoes.

Afterwards I went out and weeded and dead-headed some of our pots and hanging baskets, and planted a bunch of zinnia seeds.

 I've never planted those before, so hoping to see them sprout and grow.
Hope everyone is having a great week and I'm always so glad when y'all stop by and leave me sweet comments!