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Sunday, May 1, 2016

Saturday, April 30, 2016

on all that is going on at my house. I had a water leak right before I went to South Carolina and when I got back I discovered that I had Carpenter Ants. So, leak repaired, ants fumigated and ceiling patched and painted.....a $650 leak. I don't understand why life can't go smoothly. My whole house is tore up as I am in a spring clean fever. Have got to put the kitchen back together. It seems that there is no time to have any fun. I have Crack O' Dawn next Saturday but doubt that I can walk because of a bad toe. I also hope to go to shoot some tulips with my photographer friends on Monday. Can't seem to get to yoga because something comes up every Wednesday. I am getting downright disgusted! I try to tell myself that things could be so much worse but since January there has been one thing after another.
I'm remembering (to try to cheer myself up) a Sunday in late summer, when I went to church at St. Josephs (now closed for steeple repair) and after went to Belle Isle. It was such a beautiful day. Haven't had a chance to go there again or back to Lower Huron to catch the Redbuds in bloom. Life is too short and I an too old to let any of this pass me by.

Ravenel Bridge, Charleston, SC

This is looking out to Folly Island....overcast day

Ravenel Bridge, Charleston

Friday, April 29, 2016

Love!

Love this building and the cobblestone street
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Behind the Garden Gate, Charleston, SC

Of course, we didn't get to see behind any garden gates as that was private property but there were a few that we did get a little glimpse. Instead, we took photos of the gates themselves and just imagined what it looked like behind them. We found one little alley that we spent walking down and I wonder what these people think of tourist gawking at their house....hence the gates, I guess.
The Crepe Myrtles on the left will bloom in the summer.....beautiful I bet.

Cypress

Love!

Read a mystery once that took place in a house on Tradd......this is the back so I assume the front of the house is on Tradd.

Love the beautiful patina on these bricks. Some walls are newly built using old bricks.

You can kind of see back into this garden.....note the 55 1/2 address. You see that a lot in Charleston because some of these houses were once a carriage house on the original property.