Sunrise on the beach. What could be more sublime? Particularly when the beach in question belonged to The Breakers in Palm Beach, and the rising of the sun was in fact the culmination of a memorable evening spent with a circle of close friends and the woman you were rapidly discovering you couldn’t live without?

Such were the fortunate circumstances in which Andrew Carrington found himself as he sipped a perfectly proportioned Mimosa — 2 ounces freshly squeezed orange juice, six ounces Dom Perignon and the barest splash of Grand Marnier — while the first rays illumined the horizon.

It was a nearly perfect moment. In a life, Andrew had to admit, with perhaps more than its fair share of them. Standing in the dew-kissed grass, he contemplated the very spot on which he stood. While Andrew was often admired, he held private the men of his own admiration. Henry Morrison Flagler was one of them. Through sheer will, he raised The Breakers out of the ashes like a Phoenix with near-mythical ambition. Andrew reflected on how Henry had not lived to witness this inspired reopening of his beloved Flagler’s Paradise. Never one to dwell on the morbid, and deeply moved to have been invited by the man himself, Andrew vowed to return to this spot annually as a tribute to his kindred spirit. With this respectful pact fresh in mind, he decided the moment was in fact, now perfect.

Fortunately, Andrew was not a man upon whom any perfect moment was wasted. Richly observant and deeply meditative, he captured each one as crisply and clearly as any Stieglitz portrait. (The photographer and his muse, Georgia O’Keeffe, were in residence at The Breakers concurrent with Andrew and Isabelle’s stay.)

Upon further reflection, Andrew decided that the only thing keeping this moment from the attainment of total perfection was that its deeper significance would be largely lost on Liam. And that Liam was, at this moment, beginning to draw attention to their party by splashing a little too vigorously in the hotel pool. Minus, naturally, his bathing trunks.