For Margaret..........

This painting is by our favorite Charleston Artist - John Carroll Doyle,

The title is "Picnic at the Sandbar" and so excited to hang in our future dining room.

Mr. Doyle helped donated some items for a local non-profit I had set-up while living in Charleston. His notoriety helped me greatly in launching that project and forever I am thankful. Please read the remarks by Mr. Doyle on his vision/meaning of the painting below:

Many times, Charleston has been rated the most polite city in America. Having been raised a Charlestonian, I grew up in an atmosphere of manners based on respect for others. This tradition of gentility, often associated with the Southern “blue-bloods”, was actually taught at all levels of Charleston Society. In “Picnic on the Sandbar”, we see an African-American couple of humble means who have rowed from Charleston’s peninsula to a sandbar just south-west of Fort Sumter. The gentleman in the painting, raised, as myself, to show chivalrous respect to women, bows and assists his lady from her “carriage” onto the sand. A blanket and picnic basket await the couple, preludes to a romantic lunch, with Charleston’s harbor at their feet. The Artist

I don't think I can even follow that beautiful painting with my horrible photography-

This is the tile going up in our Master Shower.