Saturday, we were invited by my friends who used to live on Maui (been living in Charleston for the past 13 yrs!.Wife is from here), to a family get-together for their father's 85th birthday. He is still a vital and vibrant man who leads an independent life. What a wonderful, open and inclusive family. We were welcomed with hugs and invited to participate without reserve. This lovely low-country home felt loved and lived in. Grandchildren came and went, with dog in tow and played badminton, rode around in the golf cart and came and went.
This is a true country home in the tall pines and magnolias, next to the marshes...about 15 acres. My friend's sister and her husband live here part time...their other residence is in Charlotte, North Carolina, about 3 hrs drive north.
Looking out through the screens, there are new trees to be planted...Olives.
The birthday cake. The great grandchildren helped to blow out the candles, of course.:)
This 10 week old puppy had just arrived with one of the guests, but I doubt it's feet touched the ground...it was must loved by all!
Olive, the Rhode Island Red Hen, was very 'tame' and didn't seem to mind being handled by little hands.
It is a very tranquil place, looking out across the marshes. I have come to love them for so many reasons...not the least the colors and movement.
It looks an ordinary house from this view, but it is warm, inviting, homely and at the same time classy and fun.
The Great Room is bisected by an enormous chimney and hearth. It is an ideal 'farmhouse'. The black door at left leads to the screened room.
The owner loves color...a woman after my own heart:)
I was delighted to find her living room walls were the almost exact shade of yellow that I had painted in my house in Hawaii:)
The Bantam didn't seem to mind being handled either.
I loved their hen house:)
The old dog was wherever the children were, of course.
This art could have easily been in my own yard...I like it! found objects made into art!
And joy of joys....fresh hens eggs.
What a gorgeous basket of delight. The little ones come from the Bantam, of course, the white ones from the grey and white hen and the brown/pink ones from the Rhode Island Red. We were allowed to take some home, and had them in our omelet the next morning.
We had arrived at around 3pm, and left just before 7pm. We loved being included in the family celebrations and meeting the family. I had met some of them before, but not on home turf, as it were.
Our friends had come by the boat on the way to the gathering, just to see hour home on the water...so they can visualize us when they read about our journey:)
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