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LEMON ISLAND PRESERVE -Gift

The Lemon Island Preserve is a piece of protected land on the southern side of the Broad River. The colors of the marsh grass change with the tides and the seasons. It's breathtaking to see in person especially when a storm is approaching across it's vast open-ness. The Lowcountry is called that because as the State of South Carolina approaches the sea it slopes ever lower in elevation. The hills to the west eventually drop below sea level here on the coast. The land is flat, no hills, the highest elevation is a bump in the road! Many would say it's ridiculous to put a house here. When it storms there is always the chance that the water will overflow the marshes as has happened over the years with any number of hurricanes. In my opinion it is worth the risk, Whether you look up at the late afternoon cumulus clouds stretching and yawning over the ground below or you look down and across the quiet marshes swaying in time to an unheard song,, the eye has a feast.. the heart sings

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Lorna Skeie 02 Mar 2010

What a beautiful landscape! And so well done

nikos kanellos 13 Dec 2008

Very nice work Marisa

Artist Reply: thankyou Nikos,, this was one of the very first paintings I did.. I gave it to my parents for a gift.. the grain of the wood makes it look like it's raining.. but that's not what i painted.. hahahahha.. the Preserve is a most beautiful place in an;y weather though and so I don't mind...

John Graham Inkson 30 Aug 2008

I like the simplicity of this, a place I could lose myself in painting for hours on end.

Greg Summers 26 Feb 2008

this is beautiful - the kind of dream place that should remain forever in its dream state for little girls and boys and wild things to live and play and remeber long summer days of day dreaming and cloud watching

Faye Facer 18 Feb 2008

I am with you in your appreciation of Nature. Good palette, I can almost feel the rain and smell the marsh.