Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree

Rusha Sams — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 02:23:50 +0000

I wish I could say my last two weeks have been carefree, but, alas, the new school year has moved in with a vengeance! Here’s to more posts coming up soon!

The Weekly Photo Challenge this week focuses on the word carefree, so I immediately thought of the last pictures I had downloaded from a carefree week at Pawleys Island, SC. Each July — the last week of the month — we kick back, walk the beach, read books, take naps, and rekindle the friendships we have with the families who return to the same spot, same beach, each year! Ah, the carefree life even if only for a week!

Fishing the Marsh at Pawleys

Biking in the Bird’s Nest Area

Cheering on the Blue Team in the Children’s Summer Games

Catching the Last Sunrise Before Going Back to Work

A beautiful setting for the carefree life!

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A Word a Week Challenge: Roof

Rusha Sams — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:00:05 +0000

This week’s A Word a Week Challenge: Roof came during our annual week at the beach. We stay at Pawleys Island, South Carolina, in a house one row off the beach, but we have a good vantage point from the widow’s walk on our roof. My husband and I spend the “golden hours” (as I’ve learned to call them from the WordPress challenges up on that roof) so I’m sharing a couple of pictures from my little bird’s nest “up top.”

If I’m there at sunrise, this is the view I get from that widow’s walk. I look beyond two rooflines toward the ocean at daybreak to jumpstart my day.

When I look back, I see another widow’s walk with an owl decoy standing proudly to guard his “estate” at Pawleys, the oldest seashore resort in America.

And if I direct my attention to the marsh, I look at the roofs of the porches on the docks stretching into the creek.