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Hey, there.
Come on up to the porch and sit a spell. We'll sip a tall glass of
sweet tea and wait for the egrets to swoop low on their way to Brown's
Island for the night. The flight path of the ibis veers off to the
right. You watch for the curved bill--that'll be the ibis. Maybe a
great blue heron will wander 'round the point and stand with his foot
tucked up, his neck curled, searching the shallows. Maybe he'll even
spear a fish with that long beak and gulp it down. And if we get up
really early tomorrow morning, we just may see a dolphin or two leap
inside the bay. They don't come often, especially not since Hurricaine
Floyd dumped all that silt in our water, but I did see them once, years
ago. We can hope. Miracles happen.
My name is Normandie Ward
Fischer. I'm a writer, sculptor, wife, mother, daughter of earthly
parents, and most importantly, daughter of the King--the one who
created the sun and the moon and the stars and set them up there for us
to enjoy. I'll tell you more about him as we get to know each other.
My husband Michael and I are cruising in Mexico right now. You can read about our trip on Sea Venture's Journey.
Be on the lookout for our beautiful big boat with the blue dove on its
mainsail. When you see it, y'all come on by and say "Hey," won't you?
Occasionally, I drop off a note at my writing blog Writing on Board. This doesn't happen as often as it should because, frankly, I'd rather be working on one of my stories. My agent is trying to place the first in a series set in Beaufort, NC, a coastal town just down the road a bit from that piece of water in the photo above. I'm so pleased to be represented by Terry Burns of Hartline Literary Agency and to be among his great family of writers. What a blessing.
If you do drop in to visit while I'm home in NC, maybe you can come for a sail on our little boat. Here's a picture Michael took of me sailing us home from the Cape on my sharpie named Puff. You can read something about this wonderful wooden boat in the piece I wrote called Sailing Odyssey, linked under the Scribblings page. The messy sailor-hair and hat? My normal, everyday look out here on the water.
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