This wet bamboo sprout right at my eye level got my attention while I was waiting for the Barred Owl to do something.
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, SC
May 24, 2024
Bamboo Sprouting
Category Archives: This and That
Antique Hand Water Pump
Antique–belonging to an earlier time …Merriam-Webster
I’m not sure I like items I remember using in my childhood being antiques, but that is what comes to mind every time I pass by this hand pump driving into Donnelley Wildlife Management Area. Whatever it provided water for is long gone. It seems too far from the Boynton House to have been their source of water, maybe a barn stood here.
A bluebird box stands on the other side of the road.
I didn’t see the Carolina Wren until he flew up onto the pump outlet.
For reference, here’s an image I took last April from the road, the Boynton House in the background, that I never published on this blog.
Boynton House Property
Donnelley Wildlife Management Area, SC
February 21, 2024
Man And Dog
And a ball.
Scary Look
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
Oh What A Tangled Web
Moisture outlined a series of spider webs at the edge of the swamp on a foggy morning.
The Other Side of the Story
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:
Good Morning, Sun
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
Oval Drawing Room, Revisited 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
Silent Sunday: Red
Lookin’ Around, At The Beach
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