Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
August 25, 2025
Silent Sunday: Hibiscus and Susans
Tag Archives: Summer
Green Heron, Classic Pose
A Green Heron flushed from the water’s edge when I walked passed, then surprisingly landed out in the open.
The trees on the opposite bank had some dead leaves that provided an artsy mottled background.
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC
August 14, 2025
Wood Stork, Gnarly Tree
I love Wood Storks and the gnarly trees around the pond at Magnolia Cemetery. Yesterday, they made a great combo.
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC
August 14, 2025
Green Heron, Stopping By
A Green Heron landed on the boardwalk railing at Shem Creek, pausing a moment to ruffle his feathers. The marsh grass in the background is almost glowing with full summertime green.
Shem Creek, Mount Pleasant, SC
August 5, 2025
Sunflower Field in Summer
This was one of those times I wished for something to stand on as I lined up the background vegetation that appeared like a green shower behind this sunflower head.
I was hoping to see a bird or two investigating these plants. It was too hot (90 F = 32 C) to stay out there and wait.
A few of the sunflowers in this field hadn’t reached the drooping stage of maturity.
Donnelley Wildlife Management Area, SC
July 16, 2025
Sunflowers, Small Variety
Donnelley Wildlife Management Area, SC
July 21, 2024
Palamedes Swallowtail on Thistle
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
June 14, 2024
Dragonfly Against the Blue
This post has been hanging out in my drafts, waiting for something I’ve long forgotten.
July 2018
ACE Basin
Morning Posies
Around Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, morning of June 16th.
I liked the imperfection at the top of this bloom.
A thistle, with such an interesting shape and so many textures.
I’ve always liked the alien look of the Button bush flowers, but they have taken on a new feel in the post-COVID world after we’ve seen so many magnified viruses.
Many of the older Magnolia trees don’t seem to have bloomed as well this year as I remember. This was a good specimen.
I don’t know what this is, but I do like it.
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, SC
June 16, 2023
Fungi Group
There is just something fascinating about how fungi grow.
Top view
Side view
September 10, 2022
Grounds of Strawberry Chapel
Cordesville, South Carolina