Sunday Stills – Page 8 – Wandering Dawgs

Celebrating Irish Heritage in Savannah and Tybee Island

March 15, 2024Posted in Celebration, PhotographyTagged Barabbas and the Tribe, green, junkanoo, Parade, Savannah St. Patricks Day Parade, St. Patrick's Day, Sunday Stills, Tybee Irish Festival Heritage20 Comments

The history of the Savannah St. Patrick’s Day parade can be traced back to 1824. This year the parade organizers are expecting an even bigger crowd than usual with the parade celebrating it’s 200th anniversary. The festivities begin well before the March 17 parade each year. Today, the Savannah parade is one of the largest in the world. Marching in the parade will be groups of families, Irish societies, floats, marching bands, pipe and drum bands, military units, and even the Budweiser Clydesdales.

People start wearing their green in early March. Green is every where you look around Savannah. The header image features the Forsyth Fountain dyed green. There will be green beer, green grits, even beards and dogs dyed green.

It’s been several years since we’ve gone to the Savannah parade. We always enjoy the festivities on nearby Tybee Island. The Tybee Island Irish Heritage usually has a parade on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day. Sadly, the parade was cancelled this year because the area was under a tornado watch.

This college includes highlights from past Tybee parades.

One of the highlights of the week is the Bahamian Junkanoo group Barabbas and the Tribe who create special costumes for the week and march in the both the Savannah and Tybee parades playing their Junkanoo music. They also perform at the Crab Shack on Tybee Island every night before the Savannah Parade.

This year’s Tybee celebration began on Friday night, March 8 with a Junkanoo parade through the Crab Shack on Tybee Island. On Saturday they will march in the 200th Savannah St. Patrick’s Day parade.

There was more green fun Tuesday night when Pipe and Drum bands from Savannah and Limerick, Ireland got together to practice on the Tybee Island Pier and Pavilion.

On Saturday, March 16, 2024 the streets of Savannah will be filled with thousands of spectators dressed in green as the 200th edition of the Savannah St. Patrick’s Day takes place.

Luck of the Irish to you!

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Saving Daylight with Green

A Look Back at 2023

January 2, 2024Posted in Birds, Nature, Photography, Road Trip, WildlifeTagged Coastal Georgia, Cruising, home sweet home, Looking back at 2023, Sunday Stills26 Comments

Our year was filled with some wandering, some quality time at home, and good times with family and friends.

January

A week long getaway to the Florida Gulf Coast was just what we needed to start the year. The week was filled with beautiful sunrises, bird watching, swimming with manatees, and a Mermaid show at Weeki Watchee Springs State Park.

February

February was a quiet month at home with porch sitting when the weather was nice, a trip to the Ships of the Sea Museum in Savannah with friends, attending the Livestrong program two days a week, and watching the camellias bloom.

March

We stayed home for the month. The azaleas were blooming and the days were filled with St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations with the Junkanoo band from the Bahamas.

April

We took a road trip to do some wandering in middle Georgia, enjoyed the spring flowers in our garden, and watched a few backyard birds.

May

We celebrated Henry’s birthday at a Savannah Bananas game and made a trip to Virginia to visit family.

June

We celebrated my birthday with a road trip to Orlando where we had a delicious birthday lunch at Sanaa at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge and spent a day at the Animal Kingdom theme park.

July

July brought a gorgeous full moon, a double rainbow and a trip to the Georgia mountains to celebrate our anniversary.

August

The weather was hot but the flowers in the garden were blooming at home. We made another trip to middle Georgia where we wandered around Butterflies and Blooms in the Briar Patch.

September

There were walks on the beach and gorgeous sunrises.

October

I made a trip to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Back at home we wandered around Ft. Pulaski National Monument one day.

November

We flew to Ft. Lauderdale to begin our long awaited Panama Canal and Central America Cruise. Watch for another post about this adventure coming soon.

December

We celebrated the holidays with friends and family at home. Some mornings I woke up to a brilliant orange sky at sunrise.

There were also many events with no photos to share. In March I completed a three month Livestrong program for cancer survivors at our local YMCA and I still continue to stay fit with water aerobics and other classes at the gym. We had some long delayed home home improvements taken care of. We cheered on our 13 year old granddaughter at a few middle school volleyball and basketball games. We were safe and dry in our home as we watched and heard the rain and wind from hurricane Idelia passed by in August.

Wandering Dawgs celebrated 10 years of blogging in March. I appreciate all of you who read and follow my posts. I’m looking forward to keep this up for a while.

Wishing you good health, happiness and much joy in 2024!

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills

A Few Favorite Bridges

September 28, 2023Posted in PhotographyTagged bridges, Sunday Stills25 Comments

For this month’s Sunday Stills Challenge Terri asks us to explore bridges.

I live in an area with many creeks, rivers and large areas of salt marsh. Whenever I leave my neighborhood to go anywhere I have to cross several bridges. My header image is of the Talmadge Bridge in nearby Savannah, Georgia.

We’ve seen many bridges in our travels – highway bridges across wide rivers, walking bridges, covered bridges, and swinging bridges. The following images are of a few of my favorite bridges from around the United States.

Swinging bridge over the Santa Fe River in O’Leno State Park

Suspension Bridge over Tallulah Gorge, Georgia

Shadow of the Alaska Railroad train on the bridge over Hurricane Gulch, Alaska

Imes Covered Bridge, Madison County, Iowa

Two bridges crossing the mighty Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Mississippi

Bridge over Kentucky River at the Wild Turkey Distillery

Next up are a few favorite bridges from our travels in Ireland and Scotland.

Bridge at Eileen Donan Castle, Scottish Highlands

Ha’Penny Bridge across the River Liffey, Dublin, Ireland

Rope bridge at Carrick-a-Rede on the Causeway Coastal Route, Northern Ireland

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills Bridges

Yellow is my Favorite Color

August 17, 2023Posted in Butterflies, Flowers, PhotographyTagged are you all-in for yellow, Butterflies and Blooms in the Briar Patch, summer, summer blooms, Summer flowers, Sunday Stills, Swallowtail, Yellow13 Comments

For this month’s Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge Terri wants to know if we are all in for yellow. I am!

On a recent visit to middle Georgia my husband and I wandered around Butterflies and Blooms in the Briar Patch at the Briar Patch Walking Trail in Putnam County, Georgia. As I walked along the trail I kept my eyes peeled for butterflies and yellow flowers. I hope you enjoy these yellows as much as I did!

Flowers and butterflies! What’s not to love?

To learn more about this wonderful pollinator habitat please visit their FaceBook page Butterflies and Blooms in the Briar Patch.

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills Are you all-In for Yellow?

Summertime is My Lazy Time

August 11, 2023Posted in Flowers, PhotographyTagged Coastal Georgia, Lazy Hazy Daze of Summer, summer, Sunday Stills15 Comments

July and August in coastal Georgia are always hot, humid and stormy. It’s too hot to sit outside on my porch or go out to take photos. With heat indexes over 100 degrees Fahrenheit it’s easy to be lazy and stay inside to cool off in the air conditioning. Many afternoons have found me inside reading or watching the storms as they roll in. The rainbows after the storm have been spectacular.

The full moons have been spectacular, too.

It’s much too hot to go out and tend to my garden. This year I got lazy and put off pulling weeds in my flower beds because of the heat. I finally found that if I got started pulling weeds about 8:00 a.m. I could get a little work done before the heat got too much for me. Despite my lack of attention, some of the flowers are thriving.