I took this photo back in April when this Cypress Knee had just the right light shining on it to make it look like a Halloween cartoon ghost. The caterpillars were a scary bonus.
Audubon Center at Beidler Forest, Harleyville, SC
April 7, 2023
Moisture outlined a series of spider webs at the edge of the swamp on a foggy morning.
If any of you follow my husband, Ted Jennings/TPJ Photo, you might have seen his post He Couldn’t Wait, Alligator, a series of an Alligator walking across a walkway.
I had passed by before the Alligator came out of the pond on the right, and turned just to see him disappearing into the pond on the left. This was what I saw:
The ring encircling this wooden sun may have held a gas station sign at one time. An antique store now occupies the adjacent building.
St. Augustine, FL
February 6, 2023
The symmetry and bling of the historic Nathaniel Russell House is on full display in the oval drawing room.
I am fascinated by these tri-column mirror panels. Rather like a fun-house mirror, just shifting your position an inch or two changes the scene. Here, triplicates of a music stand with varying amounts of a standing harp next to it.
Despite the wealth and import business that would have allowed the Russells to have mahogany doors, the hallway doors are faux. The skill and expense of applying the design to a pine door was valued over real mahogany.
Nathaniel Russell House Museum, Charleston, SC
January 27, 2023
This home has been restored to its 1808 appearance and is part of the Historic Charleston Foundation collection.
Additional posts of the Nathaniel Russell House Museum
I don’t take many images with people, but this made me laugh. I really expected the surfer to take a tumble when he spotted the Pelicans, but he did not.
This Willet was intrigued with something up there…
Folley Beach, SC
September 19, 2022
Continued from Leonards Mills: Shingle Mill, 1 of 2
Once he has the shingle in his hand the mill worker cuts one edge off…
…flips the shingle over…
…cuts the second edge off…
then flips the shingle into a pile.
Meanwhile the next shingle is ready…
Just to the left you can see a building sided with cedar shingles from this demonstration mill.
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I was fortunate that during my September visit the Maine Forest and Logging Museum was having Living History Days.
The Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley has a variety of exhibits intended “to preserve, celebrate and educate people about the sustainable forest culture of Maine.”
http://www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org
October 1, 2022
Wooden shingles have long been used in New England due to the abundance of wood and its durability. Ingenuity and mechanical innovations led to commercial production equipment like this Shingle Mill on display at the Maine Forest and Logging Museum.
A short length of cedar is fixed into a mechanism that carries the wood to the saw.
The mill worker takes each shingle…
… in a well practiced movement…
…lifts the shingle away from the saw blade.
A wider view:
This mill has an amazing number of moving parts.
I was fortunate that during my September visit the Maine Forest and Logging Museum was having Living History Days.
The Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley has a variety of exhibits intended “to preserve, celebrate and educate people about the sustainable forest culture of Maine.”
http://www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org
October 1, 2022
May 11, 2022
