Lens Artists Photo Challenge #366 – City Mouse/Country Mouse

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Tina’s challenge is City Mouse/Country Mouse. Her challenge is based on the “classic Aesop fable “City Mouse/Country Mouse”. If you’re unfamiliar with the story, its moral is that no matter how appealing someone else’s life may seem, there really is no place like home.”

Full disclosure: I am a country mouse. The closest I ever got to big city life was living in the Atlanta suburbs when I was first married in the early 1970’s. I rode the bus to work in downtown Atlanta. Even though the city wasn’t as big then as it is today I had my fill of big city living. I was thrilled when my husband’s job required a move to coastal Georgia.

Technically, where I live in coastal Georgia isn’t in the country. It’s not really even a suburb. I live in a small neighborhood with only two streets and friendly neighbors. I enjoy the peace and quiet that comes with being surrounded by nature. I also enjoy being a short ride from the Atlantic Ocean where I can see sunrises like the one in my featured image.

The nearest city is Savannah. Savannah was founded in 1733 and was Georgia’s first planned city. Today the population is around 148,000 and it has become a popular tourist destination. I enjoy an occasional trip to downtown Savannah to be a tourist for a day.

Talmadge Bridge
Lion Statue
Bonaventure Cemetary
River Street

My home is located about 30 minutes from downtown Savannah and a short drive to the Atlantic Ocean. When I am home I am surrounded by the beauty and quiet of the salt marsh and salt water creeks and rivers.

Early Morning Salt Marsh

Many of the trees in my neighborhood are covered with Spanish Moss

Georgia Salt Marsh

During our travels we have visited big cities like New York City, San Diego, Dublin, Glasgow and Edinborough. They were fun to see but my favorite places were all the small towns and rural areas. When we are on a road trip we go out of our way to avoid the traffic of the big cities. As much as I love travel, I am always happy when we cross the last bridge across the marsh on the way home. As Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz, “There’s no place like home.”

Thank you to everyone who responded to Egidio’s wonderful Longing challenge last week. Be sure to check back on Saturday, September 27 at noon Eastern Time when Joanne of Joanne Mason Photography will be our guest host..

I hope you will join in for this week’s challenge. Be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to Tina’s post Lens-Artists #356 – City Mouse/Country Mouse

For information on how to join the Len-Artists challenge please click here.

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49 thoughts on “Lens Artists Photo Challenge #366 – City Mouse/Country Mouse”

  6. Clearly we have much in common on this subject Beth. I too love the beauty of our coastal environment and I think Savannah and Charleston have much in common as wonderful, smaller cities. Your marsh images are so lovely and for me so representative of the world in which we are fortunate to live. Beautiful post.

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  7. So true. There is no place like home, even with travel to amazing places. I always enjoy your photos of the salt marches, Beth. They offer such a delicate beauty and you do a nice job at capturing them. The presence of light, tides, wildlife and weather, makes an empty canvas, always new. Cheers to country.

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  8. Beautiful areas, Beth! I love seeing the Spanish Moss! Living in the smaller town near an urban area is the best way to live, I believe! We love our rural area, but enjoy making the 30 minute drive to Spokane for certain necessities. My granddaughter’s name is Savannah 🙂

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  17. I’m a country boy too, having grown up in a small town surrounded by woods where I could wander to my delight. Oregon was my perfect country home because our house backed up to a million acre national forest and a rive ran through the front of our property. Not so anymore but at least were situated on five acres of semi-country property. Washington DC is about 30 miles away, however. Your love of the ocean is always shining through in your posts. That’s true today as well!

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    1. Ritva, thank you. I’m so glad to hear you enjoyed visiting Savannah. I haven’t been downtown in a while. As I looked through my photos I realized I need to go on a photo shoot soon now that the summer crowds are gone and the weather is cooler.

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