Super Saturday 11/12/11

• Went to Art in the Park at Market Commons.  Loved looking at all the local artist's wares, from drawings of the way Myrtle used to look when the Pavilion was the diva of the beach to garden tchotchkes to jewelry galore.  Found some early beachy Christmas gifts, a serendipitous bonus!  Got a coffee at Barnes & Noble and people watched, one of my favorite things.
• From my balcony:  The seagulls were thick on the beach, flapping and squawking "more, more, more" as people tossed bread in the air.  They toted their beakfulls to the shallow ponds of low tide to eat in private.
• Sunbella called me out for a beachwalk.  The way-out low tide left the beach more naked than I'd ever seen it.  Reminded me of those Kardashian chicks at a red carpet event.  If the mounds of jiggly jellyfish had been out, it would've been a dead ringer.
• Anyway, the exposed sand brought out hordes of shellseekers stuffing their pockets and metal detectives scanning every inch of beach for treasure.  The only thing I was tempted to pick up was part of a denture.  I'm guessing top front teeth.  Five of them.  I'm also guessing someone won't be biting into an apple anytime soon.  I left the teeth.  In case that someone comes back for them.
• I bowed to Palmetto boy, fronds sticking up all around the top of his baseball cap and waving in his hands like he was blessing the beach.  He blushed and covered his face with fronds.  He may need the blessing because the Palmetto is South Carolina's state tree and probably illegal to be toting around.
• What a super day this has been.  And I'm headed out later to hear Ten Toes Up play at Dead Dog's in Murrell's Inlet.  Should be a great show.