Another lamp ‘still life’ for lack of a better description.
While there providing light for the intricate fireplace carvings in the background I found it to be just as interesting.
Museum Lamp
Category Archives: This and That
On The Run
This was the scene I had been hoping to shoot. I wanted to get a few ponies running through the marsh, catch the splashing water. Catching the herd together would have been great, but not to be had.
The ones I did manage to photograph were as the herd moved away into the woods toward a watering hole. Stragglers wanted to catch up and did need to run a bit to catch up.
Flower, Best I’ve Got
Well, I could have said wet flower I suppose.
Growing out back.
More Pink, Found On A Walk
Just not the usual type of pink.
I think it’s more like ‘Oldsmobile’ pink.
The clock actually works !
The car was at a difficult angle for a good frontal photograph. But I’m reasonably sure this is an Oldsmobile.
Found On A Walk, Most Creative Bicycle
The theme here might have been ‘Built Not Bought’.
A friend invited me to a small local car show. This was a chance for us to get the cameras out and shoot in a different direction.
The cars were great, however the bicycle caught my attention. The owner brings a bike to the clubs weekend meetings. It turns out the car owners are also fascinated with what he built. In fact there are a total of nine different bicycle works.
In the next month or so there will be a dedicated Charleston exhibit of the nine works.
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Found On A Walk, Most Creative Bicycle
Found On A Walk, Most Creative Bicycle
Found On A Walk, Most Creative Bicycle
Found On A Walk, Most Creative Bicycle
Found On A Walk, Most Creative Bicycle
Found On A Walk, Most Creative Bicycle
Found On A Walk, Most Creative Bicycle
The Conversation
Every year I try to capture this scene. It happens early in the mating season. It appears one or the other is being the dominant partner.
I have a version from a past year, a metal print, hanging on my office wall. One of my favorite scenes that I never grow tired of.
Great Blue Herons, a conversation.
In A Garden Swamp Pond
While the words garden and swamp sound like a contradiction, it’s really not. Around (without looking it up) 150 years ago the owners of Magnolia Plantation began to bring visitors by boat up the Ashley River from Charleston to view the grounds and gardens. A first ‘tourist attraction’ to raise money after the US Civil War.
Rather than rebuild formal gardens a romantic garden was started. Plantings, flowers, around the natural swamp land right out front of the plantation buildings. Over time front gardens are almost a maze of green, and some of that ponding has gone to swamp, though maintained and beautiful.
Below is a statue that sits in a swamp area by the main house. It’s become an island, over grown, but the statue still sits there. All around the house grounds you can find urns and statues in the under growth.
Other parts of the property are kept as the land originally was. There are several large swamps, rice fields, and marshes left to the wildlife and nature.
Indian Fields Tents
I make a point of stopping at several of the old campground meeting places each year.
A handful of camps are still in use for yearly revival meetings and things like wars, pandemics, never have gotten in the way. This goes back to the founding of Methodist church.
The cabins are referred to as tents in keeping with the original gatherings described in the Bible. Each campground has a wooden Tabernacle encircled by the tents.