It’s Always Best To Go with the Flow…

…even when that flow is rain and thunder and lightening. Even when it means that you cannot see the Fall colors in the Smokey Mountains.  Even when you waited for months for this adventure.  Jim and I set out to go to the Smokies via Savannah last Monday.  The evening approaching Beautiful Savannah was fraught with scary downpours on unfamiliar, dug up roads that sizzled with whiter than white lightening.  Thankful that we got there in one piece, I held out hope that the morrow would bring amazing light and that we could go on to savor rushing streams and waterfalls crowned with spellbinding fall colors.  It was not to be.  Deciding to head back home, we made the best of the day in Savannah.

Our first stop was Tybee Island to the east of Savannah.  There, heavy skies presented an insipid landscape.   Even the Laughing Gulls were listless:

A dreary mood covered everything until, suddenly, masses of Skimmers and Least Terns slashed the skies with their red and orange beaks:

My mood changed into a “fever” of anticipation that photography always creates for me. We spent a wonderful hour with Pelicans, Skimmers, Gulls and Least Terns who, following the food, would swoop upward and swirl around until, in unison, they found more lucrative feeding grounds.  Next came the Lighthouse on Tybee Island:

But my favorite image is the startling red roof over grey walls:

On we went to Bonaventure Cemetery which is infused with history. The sun made an appearance and provided some back lighting.

I felt like a poet contemplating life amongst those grave monuments:

And there, I got a sighting of Fall colors:

We made our way back to Tybee Island on the strength of those few rays of pale sun and would you believe that the sun came bursting out and infused the Low Country with gorgeous color:

The butterflies came out and danced:

And showed off their colorful patterns:

To top it all off, I saw this Low Country Snowy Egret who still had a little wisp of mating feathers:

So, you see that it IS always better to go with the flow ! ;D Keep smiling, singing and dancing.  And, to help you, here’s Kenny Loggins with “Footloose”.  Enjoy!