Hilton Head Island: living with water

 

Even in this condo I live with water.  At high tide it is only a few yards away.  I glance out at it as soon as I wake in the morning.  I sit reading or listening to music or watching a game and glance out countless times a day.  I watch water approach and retreat.  I see the light change on Skull Creek.  Last evening I was sitting on the screened porch watching a basketball game.  This is an approximation of what I saw just after sunset.  The colors were actually more subtle and the reflection more lavender.  I tried to adjust the image but reality often exceeds our attempts to capture it.

Here is what I saw fifteen or twenty minutes later.

Still beautiful, but different.