SHORELINE

I am drawn to coastlines.  Growing up in Michigan, water was never far away.  Living in the mountains, I miss lakes and coastlines.

For years, I walked the shoreline of Botany Bay near Edisto to see the leafless trees, arms outstretched, standing out at water’s edge.  Rinsed with each high tide, the dead tree shapes stood as quiet sentinels.  In 2016, Hurricane Matthew tore through and left giant, knotty piles of debris across what was once an elegant skeletal landscape. It’s hard to go there now.