Rainbows All Around

These photos were taken in Surfside Beach, SC; a very colorful little seaside town.  The following art piece was done by a local artist (Thomas Simpson, 2009). It is painted on the side of an entire restaurant. Quite eye-catching for this normal cinder block building. 

Surfside Beach Art© by Mac

You will find many places with very colorful houses, on the beach and off; they are on stilts  (as you will see often on the West Coast, but not as often on the East Coast). This is a beautiful place, just a 20 minute drive from Myrtle Beach and less tourist ridden. Many of these houses are for rent, weekly, monthly, exc. There are also locals and many great local restaurants within walking and golf cart distance.

Rainbow Houses #1© by Mac

Rainbow Houses #2© by Mac

Water Way© by Mac

Rainbow Street© by Mac

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge
Photography by Mac, Nikon D3400

The Ocean Song

by Mac©

I could listen all night long to the sound of your rhythmic song

Your waves they splash to and fro as the waters ebb and flow

I shut my eyes, listen close as I hear the song you chose

A perfect pitch, a lucid role as you sing a tranquil solo

The melody touches deep, soothing me, I fall asleep

Sands of time are lost to me as I drift out to sea

Dancing on waters vast, but night will not last

So I bid you, adieu! Oh Ocean, I do love you©

by Mac

Beauty’s Shadows

“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” ~Junichiro Tanizaki

by Mac©

by Mac©

by Mac©

Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadow

Broadway At The Beach, Myrtle Beach, SC

Photos taken with Nikon D3400 ~by Mac

Delicately Spun

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.” ~Tennessee Williams

by Mac©

Cees’s B&W PC: Glass

Dream, Dare, Fly

“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.”
~Israelmore Ayivor

Dream

by Mac©

Dare

by Mac©

Fly

by Mac©

CFFC: Flying/Crawling

Broadway At The Beach, Myrtle Beach, SC 

Photos done with a Nikon D3400

Reflect Upon

“It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.” ~C. JoyBell C.

Reflections© by Mac

Reflections© by Mac

Reflections© by Mac

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Mirror

Broadway At The Beach, Myrtle Beach, SC 

Photos done with Nikon D3400

To Land or Land

I love this photo, here in Myrtle Beach, as the clouds curved with the coast line. But, there, right in the middle of my picture, flies the stupid commercial plane! I hate these things. They are always flying about during tourist season, streaming along their banners of some sort. Usually for a tourist store, of which there are TONS (like they can’t find them)! Well, eventually it will land and so I use this photo as two fold, in the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Land. To land or land? Mac©

©by SBDMB (MM)

Fly Free, Into Solitude

The silence is deafening, full of loneliness, emptiness
I wish to go away, flying free to the sea
Listening to the waves, my soul is renewed in solitude©

by Mac

by Mac©

by Mac©

by Mac©

by Mac©

Weekly Photo Challenge: solitude

Around The Commons

“Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.” ~Wallace Stegner

Arches by Mac©

Arches by Mac©

Street View by Mac©

Street View by Mac©

Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge

Those Golden Hues

The light has begun its journey across the sky
First peeks the rays of a pink iridescent light
Then comes the hues of gold that make me cry
In perfection is the orange, as leaves the night

Here comes the sun peaking from its slumber
Kissing the sky gently, so beautifully infusing
A paint brush and pallet, colors I can’t number
Darkness to daylight this brilliance it is fusing©

by Mac

by Mac©

by Mac©

by Mac©

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by Mac©

Myrtle Beach, SC