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Historical, Landscape, Marsh, OM System, Shooting A Grand Old House, What I Saw

Scenes From The Delta – # 3

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A trip to the old Hampton Plantation, using the original creeks and marsh route is beautiful, and long. It makes you realize just how deep in the delta this plantation actually is.

Scenes From The Delta - # 3
Scenes From The Delta – # 3

The home is first seen as you reached the end of Hampton Creek. The creek winds through marsh and rice fields, finally the house can be seen through the trees. Very impressive!

Scenes From The Delta - # 3
Scenes From The Delta – # 3
Scenes From The Delta - # 3
Scenes From The Delta – # 3

This is what you find at the end of the trip. Amazing to be built around 1730. Using the local wood, Black Cypress, made the basic structure almost indestructible.

Scenes From The Delta - # 3
Scenes From The Delta – # 3

Hampton Plantation, Santee Delta, South Carolina.

Charleston, Landscape, OM System, What I Saw

Jill Hooper – Love Letter

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In the rotunda of the Gibbs Museum I spotted a familiar face down one of the wings. Jill Hooper, a self portrait, in a style that she is known  for.

The last time I saw this painting it was hanging as an exhibit in one of the old Charleston manors, in an unfinished room with several other works. Prior to that it hung in London’s National Portrait Gallery.

This is a recent acquisition. The artist lives in Charleston and is now hanging here and several museums in Europe.

Jill Hooper - Love Letter
Jill Hooper – Love Letter

I obviously like her work 😆.

Historical, Landscape, OM System, Shooting A Grand Old House, What I Saw

Around Strawberry Chapel

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Built as a ‘chapel of ease’ in 1725 for planters who found it difficult to reach the main parish church, it is one of the few that still serves as a functioning church. Services are typical provided four times a year.

The chapel is surrounded by a small cemetery and overlooks the site of the former town of Childsbury, which faded with the decline of the surrounding plantations.

Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel

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Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel
Around Strawberry Chapel

Strawberry Chapel has Ball, Harleston, Waring and Stoney descendants actively working to protect its historic 1725 structure and graves. The property is privately owned in rural South Carolina.

 

Charleston, Landscape, OM System, Swamp, What I Saw

Color In Passing

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It’s still a thing to spot a bright flower and quickly grab a shot. Spring brings a whole new crop of colors.

The images below were taken on a walk the other day. None were in great spots or had exciting shapes. But look at the colors, and remember it wasn’t that long ago things were (mostly) brown.

Color In Passing
Color In Passing
Color In Passing
Color In Passing
Color In Passing
Color In Passing

Charleston, South Carolina.

Birds, Landscape, Marsh, OM System, Spoonbill, Swamp, Wildlife

Spoonbills Shifting Again

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Roseate Spoonbills are known as a species more willing than most birds to change their territory. In the 1950’s  and 1960’s, this saved them from extinction in North America (they were Florida only then).

They look to be moving again. Northern Florida has a huge number of Spoonbill. If you view the image below large you can see adults, breeding colors, mixed with our usual juveniles.

Even more interesting is a few pair are building nests in our local swamps, just a few minutes from my home. While they look a little young, and maybe they just got caught up in the rookery activity, it’s still a great sign. Spoonbills are survivors.

Spoonbills Shifting Again
Spoonbills Shifting Again

Roseate Spoonbills, Port Royal, South Carolina.

Alligator, Charleston, OM System, What I Saw, Wildlife

Casually Watching Me, Alligator

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This is a favorite spot for resting. While the photograph shows this as what you might think of in the middle of a dangerous place, it’s deceiving.

This is a mid-sized pond with a statue, small bubble fountain, and a nice tourist bridge. A main path for plantation visitors runs along the far side of this pond. It’s a busy spot, and the gator is popular to see.

While he doesn’t live here full time, the river is close for food, he does often enjoy the spot .

Like so many of us I think he loves to ‘people watch’. That’s what he was doing when to took this.

Casually Watching Me, Alligator
Casually Watching Me, Alligator
Charleston, Historical, Landscape, OM System, What I Saw

Huguenot Church / French Quarter

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We were walking through town heading to the Gibbs Museum and I noticed the doors were open here for visitors. An open church door is like a gigantic hook…grabs my camera every time.

The first wooden church here was in 1645, this building was built in 1845. It was rebuilt once more, the French Quarter in Charleston was targeted by the Federal gunboats during our US Civil War.

Huguenot Church / French Quarter