...would be a lot fun right about now... a tall icy drink, palm trees swaying in the breeze, the screened-in sleeping porch, laughter and dogs barking in the distance... these are the things of the endless summers of my childhood. Although our cottage wasn't quite this adorable, it was the real thing... wooden cottage on stilts set back in the dunes in the palmettos at Indian Pass Beach on the Gulf Coast, with a wooden walkway leading to the front screened porch. With the sun hot overhead, as children we were not allowed outside between 10 am and 3 pm, so my four brothers and I played endless games of monopoly and cards, built forts and put on plays and art shows. Those summer vacations are now more a state of mind than anything else. Wanna come play? colorful vintage beach pails pale seafoam breadboard walls trimmed in white are the quintessential beach look simple shelves made from found beach wood cooling blues and whites among the mossy beach oaks Fifi Flowers painted this very cottage; you can buy this at her etsy shop here! painted floor screened porch with colorful rattan furniture is charming; the porch ceiling is painted blue to scare away the spirits... of course! the adorable cottage above is one of the Mermaid Cottages on Tybee Island, Georgia, near Savannah where my dear cousin Claire lives and my mother was born halfway between Saint Vincent Island and Cape San Blas lies Indian Pass Beach where we spent long summer vacations the incomparable white powdery sand of my childhood summers on the Gulf Coast St. George Island *** Thanks for visiting!..... Kit