Dogwoods and Black water

I was in a restaurant here in Virginia Beach recently and ordered sweet tea. The waiter went on to explain to me, quite embarrassed, that even though we are in the South, the restaurant is based in DC and that they did not have sweet tea, but I could order unsweetened tea. Blasphemy!

In my mind, there are certain things that are unmistakably southern. Moon pies. Collards. Sweet tea. Pickups on red dirt roads. Bald cypress and live oak trees, especially if veiled in Spanish moss. Magnolia and dogwood trees. Cypress swamps and blackwater rivers. The list could go on, but the point is that there are things I expect to see or experience here in the south. 

Although I can’t order sweet tea at a certain restaurant, I can watch a dogwood branch float past me on the North Landing, a blackwater river. All is right with the world on the water. 

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