When I say “Queen of Real Estate”, it’s not hyperbole. Mary Courtney Cane lives and breathes the Mobile and Eastern Shore real estate market, and she comes by it naturally.

Right in the heart of Pt. Clear, there is a unique shop that shares an old home where Punta Clara Kitchen is located, next to the Wash House restaurant, and just down and across the street from the Garage Studio. We will get to all those places soon, I promise. But the Market on Main is our focus today. What a fantastic place!

It’s football season and that means Bloody Marys and cheese straws. No one does cheese straws better than Jimmy Dill. His cheese straws are so famous that he started Tailgate Cheese Straws. Jimmy and his wife Paige, decided to start Tailgate later in life and it’s been quite the ride.

It had been a pretty big night. With the sun finally shining, we dusted ourselves off and flip-flopped our way into Playa at Sportsman Marina in Orange Beach. It was the first sunny day we had experienced in a month of Sundays, literally, and chose to sit on the porch and watch the boats go by.

Stephanie Easterling is the owner of Wildflowers Floral Design in Fairhope. It’s a bustling place full of people, flowers, and merchandise for the home. Twenty-two years ago, Stephanie came to Fairhope for a Mardi Gras weekend and was hooked. Stephanie says she was inspired by the flower beds in Fairhope. “The town was absolutely beautiful, like a Norman Rockwell painting.”

As we hung up the phone, Taylor Atchison was walking into a Mobile Planning Commission meeting where he serves as one of its commissioners. At stake is the future of the Mobile Civic Center. Taylor was invited to be on this commission by Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson who based his choice on Taylor’s experience in redeveloping several successful projects in Mobile’s historic areas.