Little St. Simons Island is one of my favorite islands to visit. This year we visited the island in fall. It was still hot in the middle of the day, but morning and early evening were quite nice. Painting in the early morning and evening was also when the light was best. We stayed in one of the modern houses which have a beautiful view of the marsh. So I could sketch while I drank my morning coffee. Perfect!
To some people the marsh is just a bunch of grass and water that often smells. But Georgia's salt marsh is really an amazing place. It is also always changing, with the tide, seasons and years. As old channels become clogged with mud and spartina and new channels form. The new green spartina of the spring fade to yellow in the fall. The early morning sunlight shines on it and the spartina turns to gold. Earning the name "the golden isles".
The blue of the sky is echoed by the blues of the rivers and creeks, along with reflections of the greens and yellows of the spartina and the red of the mud banks at low tide. The marshes protect the land from tidal surges, are a nursery for shrimp and crabs, and a home for many animals. This quite ever present expanse is an unseen web of life.
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