The Bud Light cans as the flag pole are a nice touch.

Sweet perspective

Since Morgan Wilkerson was a little girl, she dreamed of getting married on the beach. But because of the BP oil disaster, she and her betrothed will have to find another place other than Orange Beach, Ala. In the meantime, she and her brother Thomas (in the video) came down to see the damage for themselves. I like how they keep the wedding cancellation in perspective. Morgan is definitely no Bridezilla. Unlike, say Tony Haywood, they don't see this as all about them.

White Sands

People here claim that the Gulf Coast beaches along the Florida panhandle to the Mobile Bay are the whitest in the world, the result of quartz washed down for millions of years from the once towering Appalachia Mountains.

The local sentiment

This was taken in Gulf Shores, Ala. just off Mobile Bay. I almost rear-ended this guy trying to snap this picture.