Everyone touches the world in their own way. Making my own tiny imprint through this blog, I need to balance the dark with the light, the yin with the yang. This post and poem are gentle and positive.

Tossing out my anchor for this Glover Gardens 2023 Labor Day all-over-the-place ramble, with memories of rollicking good times and barbecue, family trips and dolphin sightings, recipes and Jimmy Buffett.

A lifetime of taste aversion to watermelon was vanquished with a Watermelon Salad. Sweet Baby Juiciness, that fruit is delectable!

A fiery sunset beats a fireworks display any day.

A family of geese came and went, causing us to worry about predators: gators and eagles and hawks, oh my!

Crabs caught just off our dock at Gumbo Cove were perfectly satisfying and reminiscent of my childhood at the beach in Gilchrist, TX.

Peaceful images from a weekend at Gumbo Cove.

The Grill-Meister and I celebrated Valentine’s of 2020 at Field’s restaurant in Bay St. Louis; we’re reliving the memory with the photos.

A heron stopped by Gumbo Cove while I was there doing more cleanup from Hurricane Zeta.

When a hurricane storm surge happens at Gumbo Cove, the water roars in from the Gulf and goes back out eventually, but leaves behind an unwelcome calling card: canal mud.

Cicadas and air conditioners are the soundtrack of warm summer evenings as the indigo sky darkens on another day.

Loose guidelines for a super-easy chowder that’s ready in about a half hour. And wowza, is it good!

A few random things as we batten down the hatches before Cristobal comes to visit.

The grocery store had everything we needed, plus a coastal-Mississippi-right-before-Mardi-Gras culinary cultural tour.

A brown pelican dictates a conservation haiku.

Everything needs a foundation; you can’t just jump into something without laying the groundwork and expect it to work.

There’s a birding boat in our future!

Everyone touches the world in their own way. Making my own tiny imprint through this blog, I want to write more about the gentle things in life.

A “dressed up for Christmas” photo of a Sandman from Pass Christian, Mississippi.

Gumbo is a family treasure, seashells elicit childhood memories, and these napkin rings made with shells we found 40 years ago bring echoes of the past into the now.