Jessa and I were in Savannah last month, visiting with good friends from my university days. From a spacious flat on Broughton Street downtown, we spent several days enjoying this very walkable coastal city's beautiful neighbourhoods and waterfront, Low Country cuisine, and a fine selection of wines. (Jeff is a sommelier, and generously volunteered to arrange a private tasting based on our own tastes, and pushing the envelope a bit.) A wonderful visit, but mostly not intended as fodder for the blog.
Partly because Jessa was experiencing double vision during our trip (nothing to do with the wine), we didn't do much photography in Savannah proper, but I snapped a few shots at Tybee Island Light. Unfortunately, the lighthouse was closed on the day of our visit—actually, it seemed that just about everything on Tybee was closed on Tuesdays—so all I can offer is external photos.
Tybee Island has had a lighthouse since 1736; the current structure of brick is its fourth iteration. (A more complete history is available at Wikipedia.)
[Boat-tailed grackle on the railing. This is a coastal species, but we see the closely related great-tailed grackle in Nebraska; in fact there's a very reliable location about three miles from our house.]
The keeper's house dates to the early 1880s. Jessa would want me to point out the functional exterior shutters, a must in coastal areas. No architectural feature annoys her more than purely decorative shutters.
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