This is the largest of the three Sears houses on Sapelo. They are called Sears Houses because they were bought as kits from Sears Roebuck. This one was bought by R. J. Reynolds for his foreman in 1936. It was extra-fancy; the part at the back is a special add-on sun-room/laundry/bathroom. The screen porch at the front (right in this image) is a great place to sit and meditate or read (as long as the sandflies are not out), looking out at rays of sun beaming down through the spanish moss hanging from the big oaks. The tree at the back corner of the house is a tung-oil tree. Near the tung-oil tree is a very fruitful, very old fig tree. The tree on the right of the side screen porch is a loquat that I transplanted as a seedling from Jack Fell's yard in Miami. Did you know that Georgia has its own native buckeye tree? (It's red buckeye; I have three in my yard -- I also planted some years ago on the main campus in Athens, along a wooded walkway adjacent to Lumpkin Street -- these are beautiful trees now.) Here are red-buckeye flowers. I have also established wild scarlet sage all around my yard.