Pat Sutton sits in her rocking chair on the front porch of her cottage, watching a smattering of sailboats float on the water and a couple stroll hand in hand along the small beach.

It’s a typical Saturday afternoon for the All Joy neighborhood, where a gentle breeze and the tempting mechanical jingle from an ice cream truck coax people to the May River . . .

Blake White and Matt Bridges spent much of last week enthusiastically shouting into empty space at the South Carolina Repertory Company. They were in the middle of coaching a Little League game played by invisible children represented by signs posted around the theater.

“Over there is shortstop,” Bridges says, pointing into thin air. “And over there is first base.” . . .

It’s not often that rock musicians have the forethought to offer a reporter freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and Perrier on ice for an interview. But it’s also not often that a 17-year-old books time in a recording studio — Elevated Basement Studios in Savannah — to record his first CD, which has already received attention from local press.

But it’s clear from the moment Luke Mitchell opened the doors . . .