More Lovely Homes - Part 2

 

Hi All!  We are having a wonderful time on vacation here in Garden City, SC.  As I promised I am posting more lovely homes from our vacation last year to Wild Dunes, SC.  Lots more lovely eye candy and beautiful landscaping to be seen.   I just love the lush tropical landscaping and porch's of these homes. Enjoy!

This was one of my favorites!  It was near the house we rented and I rode by it everyday!

I just loved how the porch was decorated, right down to the lighting and everything!

This house has a widows walk!

Ahh!  Wouldn't you love to lounge on this screened porch!

These homes were on the tidal creeks and marsh's of the golf course!

I love the landscaping of this home!

Pretty blue shutters!

Even the standard beach homes like this one are gorgeously manicured!

The rest of these photos focus more on all the many lovely entry stairs. Since my home has stairs leading straight up to a our front porch I really wanted to get as many photos as possible for great inspiration.

Lots of beautiful homes!  I bet you can see why I enjoyed this place so much.  Of course these are all the more exclusive homes.  There are lots of affordable condos and smaller homes available for rent on the resort as well.  I will share the home we rented with you later this week.

Hope your having a great week, I sure am so far!

Thanks for stopping by and let me know if you do, Okay?

Mary

Vacation 2009 - Part 1

I am so excited!  Saturday we are going on vacation!  We are headed to the beach and will be gone the whole week!  Woohoo!  I am looking forward to some fun and relaxation amongst the shores of Garden City Beach, South Carolina.  It is south of Myrtle Beach for those of you who aren't familiar with GC.  Everybody knows where Myrtle Beach is right?  We will be pretty much right there but out of the main hub bub!


This is one of our favorite beach's in SC to go too.  We have many favorites right here in SC.  Since our children are at that age where they still want other activities to do at the beach we decided to go here again this year.  They are getting older but are not quite ready for the quite beach's that the Mr. and I enjoy.  We tried that last year and it went well but the boys really wanted to head back to GC this year.  It' never a problem with me because this area is loaded with great shops, outlets, outdoor mega malls and such.  I always feel like I never have enough time though to squeeze in everything I want to do in one week.  LOL!

While I'm gone, I wanted to share with you some photos from our vacation last year.  We went to Wild Dunes on the Isle of Palms, SC.  This beach is a resort area on the Isle of Palms which is just outside of Charleston.  It has beautiful manicured lawns, bike trails and wide open beachs.  A swim club,golf course and a few shops and boardwalk.  It really is a beautiful place.  I was so captivated by the homes in the resort and took lots of photos.  Sit back and enjoy! They are gorgeous, lot's of eye candy here!

Wait..stop..did you see this photo?  LOL!

Pretty pink!!!

 

Be still my heart!

 

Well, that should hold you for awhile!  Beautiful isn't it!  I got up everyday while we there and rode my bicycle all over just so I could feast my eyes on all this loveliness!  Wouldn't you?  I've downloaded quite a bit more pictures I'll show you later during the week.  Since I'm on vacation and won't be doing any of my regular posts this is my gift to you.  Keep watch, there's much more coming! 

I'll also be posting a very special post I've prepared for Marty's Cloche party.  Hope you come back for that one too!

I hope you enjoyed my vacation pictures from last year!  Thanks for coming by!

Mary

Creepy Crawleys and Hitchhikers

Please join me and my friends over at Susan's for Outdoor Wednesday @ http://www.asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/.

This afternoon while taking a break (recovering from a very active weekend) on the screen porch I spotted a very unusual guest.  Mind you this guest was not actually in my screened porch, thank God, but was perilously too close on the outside.  I literally jumped in my skin when I saw him because I had been sitting out there awhile before I spotted him.

Here he is..just look at this thing!  OMG!

This is no ordinary lizard..I think it's a skink??

He was at least a good 8 to 10 inches long!

And wedged in between my screen porch post and the downspout.  Yuck!

This was a big fat chunky thing too!

With a tail that went on forever somewhere I couldn't see!  Eueww!!!

Now on to another unusual visitor we had, this time on the sailboat!

There she is... Ms. Dragonfly! 

Look how she latched on quite comfortably there.

We called her the hitchhiker, because she jumped on somewhere in the middle of the lake...

And rode for so long until we neared the land, then made a hasty exit!

Be sure and let me know if you stop by as I love to hear from you!

Happy Outdoor Wednesday!

Mary