Zebra Longwing Butterflies are very fast flyers. I missed several before this one paused on a lantana blossom.
These bold yellow flowers always catch my eye. I sometimes call them daisies, sometimes sunflowers, and I suspect there are multiple wild and garden varieties.
These pink tinged beauties were in a more formal planted area near the check-in area at Magnolia, seen with Coleus in the background.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
October 8, 2025
Leaves and other bits of tree debris merge with the Duck Weed, completely covering the smaller ponds around Magnolia Plantation.
If you didn’t know it was water or didn’t see a duck paddling by you might think it was a solid surface.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
November 16, 2025
Many of the leaves that turn have already dropped, but there was a bit of color in the tree line at the back of the marsh.
A Great Blue Heron looks rather small tucked into the grasses at the side of this canal.
Donnelley Wildlife Management Area, SC
November 23, 2025
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
November 16, 2025
A pair of Red-shouldered Hawks were hanging around near one of the ponds at Magnolia Plantation yesterday providing me another great opportunity for my first time using the OM System camera.
With fewer leaves on the trees and this one calling out I was able to spot him after he landed right above me.
Never posing together, they took turns on the dead tree and zooming in and out of the woods, seeming to enjoy the warm afternoon rather than hunting.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
November 17, 2025
Just hanging around with nothing to do, this Great Blue Heron stood like a sentinel at the edge of a pond. He stayed in this spot as Ted and I walked by to look around the pond and was still there when we passed back by an hour later.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
November 13, 2025
Ted gets extra points for spotting this Red-shouldered Hawk, far off the path and blending in with the muted fall colors behind him.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
December 17, 2024
Lovely light and now that I’ve seen the details up close I wish I had taken some more images.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
December 20, 2024
Into a fall scene
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
December 15, 2024
These stems caught my eye, I was drawn to the cube shape of look of what appears to be the dried center of flower.
There was just enough breeze that I didn’t get super sharp shots.
I wish now that I had touched it to see if it contained seeds.
I passed this spot numerous times this summer and into the fall but have no recollection of what was blooming here, likely something I dismissed as a “weed.”
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
December 9, 2024
