Life on the South Carolina Coast
Welcome and thank you for stopping by. Gary and Anne Marie make their home in the delightful coastal community of Mount Pleasant. Their little township, lies just across the harbor from the beautiful and historic City of Charleston, South Carolina, a place filled with history and hospitality. Its glorious past from its pre-Colonial days through the American Revolution, the Civil War and into the present defines the city’s character. 
The beauty of its perfectly maintained historical district, cobblestone streets, waterfront parks and theaters all add to the city’s intrigue. It was out of this rich history that the Ezzos’ wrote their short parenting chronicles, Let’s Ask Auntie Anne, which depicts the daily lives of people living on and near the Carolina saltwater marsh and low country.
The twenty minute trip from downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant is equally rich in folklore and American history. Originally part of Christ Church Parish established in 1680, Mount Pleasant woods and fertile land gave way to boroughs and plantations, as well as coastal gunneries and rows of shrimp boats dotting the horizon, coming and going from historical Shem Creek. In the 'Old Village' large sprawling oaks draped with Spanish moss enhance the feeling that you live in a forgotten time where flower-accented porches and white rocking chairs beckoned visitors to come, sit and rest. Closer to their neighborhood, rows of houses, each with Victorian accents and sweeping verandas graced by hanging flowers, add a colorful ambiance to the village scene complimented by butterflies drifting in and out of patches of light between the shade of trees. And yes the sun rises over the water are so beautiful one might think each is the first the world has ever seen.
Gary and Anne Marie live on an estuary called the Wando River. In the technical sense, it is not actually river fed by fresh water, but a small tidal finger of the Atlantic Ocean forming its own salt-marsh ecosystem complete with six and seven foot tides ebbing and flowing every seven hours. 
From their great room, large windows look out to an exquisite view of the Wando. Against the sky, the deep green marsh greets the blue water creating a peaceful scene undisturbed by man. The surface of the Wando is often so calm that from a great distance, schools of Menhaden become visible as they break the surface in a chorus line of synchronized movement. Here Dolphins come to feed among the diving pelicans, and small flocks of lease terns flying with rapid wingbeats dive into the water for prey. From their dock extending across the expanse of marsh, Gary and Anne Marie enjoy a variety of sport fish, delicious Blue Crab, and a plentiful supply of shrimp.
The Ezzos consider the marshes on the Carolina Coast one of the last stations of natural beauty and wilderness dotting the Eastern seaboard. It is easy to become mesmerized by the flocks of little white cranes and large blue herons flying over the wide expanse of water. Sunsets on the Wando 
produce a nightly ritual. Neighbors stroll the community dock to the water's edge to behold the sun's benediction on the day, as the last spears of the sun's rays brake over the western horizon. The faint sea breeze that usually comes in with the afternoon tide subsides as herons and cranes begin flying shoreward for the approaching night.
This is where they make their home. If you can picture a place by the water, a flowered paradise of sorts, with a vista of blue skies and green marshes, where birds and butterflies fill the air and the scent of ocean mingles with a Carolina morning, then you have successfully imagined a home by the water's edge they so enjoy.