Two Cup of Coffee Please...

An inviting scene for having a cup of coffee or two with a good friend

Wednesday Flowers

The Magnolias are still blooming

Maybe I should start a new series here on my blog "Wednesday Flowers" - other peoples do their "Wordless Wednesday's" or Friday's Sky Watch" or you name it...You know what I'm talking about, all those mass oriented blog-plays.

Or, I can do also a kind of a "Wish List" and you tell me the subjects that I should do photographing on my blog. It should be for every week another subject and I'll give you a back link to your blog. How good sounds that?

Well then, let's the race starts just NOW and HERE and some when in the next days soon I'll show you the results here on my blog - if any one is interested anyway....

Tuesday Specials #13

Boat in Sunset at Sunset Key

Tuesday Specials #13

I hope the #13 will be a lucky number today and will bring us some sales!

I had an idea (13 weeks ago) about supporting my husband’s fine art paintings. I am going to call it “The Tuesday Specials” and every Tuesday I will present one painting from his collection of Key West pictures.

The pictures are from original paintings done in Acrylic and/or Oil…and some of them are already in famous collections all over the globe.

The originals that are available for purchase range in price from $ 695 to
$ 4,500 based on sizes. There are also prints available.

For more details see our website: www.vanhulstart.com . For special requests please send me an email (susanne49@yahoo.com)
or call me: 843-647-0821.

Florence, SC In The Rain and The Henry Timrod House

The poet Henry Timrod and his one room school house

Henry Timrod was born on 8th December 1829 in Charleston, South Carolina. His father, William Henry Timrod, was a staunch patriot and also contributed to a literary magazine. It is no surprise, therefore, that Henry also grew up to have these characteristics.

Despite his father's early death, Timrod was still able to attend Charleston's finest school and later attended the University of Georgia. On graduating, he returned to Charleston and at first practiced law, before later becoming a private teacher. This suited him well as it also gave him time to pursue his literary ambitions.

During the Civil War, Timrod not only enlisted in a volunteer regiment, but also made the conflict the focus of his poetic works. His patriot lyrics are said to have inspired many a soldier and civilian and helped him acquire a reputation as “the laureate of the Confederacy”. One of his finest pieces to come out of this time was Ode to the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery.

Plagued by recurring illness throughout his adult life, Timrod was soon left unfit for service on the front line and instead became a war correspondent. By 1864 he had become the editor of the Columbia South Carolinian.

Despite his ill health, he married and had a son, who died shortly after the end of the war. When Timrod himself died of tuberculosis, virtually in poverty, on 7th October 1867, he was buried next to his son in the graveyard of Trinity Church in Columbia.

Only one volume of his works had been published during his lifetime (in 1860), but further collections were edited posthumously. Amongst his most memorable poems are The Cotton Boll, Carolina, and Ethnogenesis.

You can find his poems to download here:
http://www.poemhunter.com/henry-timrod/biography/

The historic sign in front of his little house

Monument in the yard and the Timrod Park in Florence

The little red caboose of the Atlantic Coast Line. Just in that moment the rain set in and I had a hard time to get around in "down town" of Florence for more photos.

This is the only one picture I could capture from the real down town area after that it was raining hard - and we left back to Charleston.

Of course, outside of Florence there was no rain anymore and I photographed this pretty water scene at sunset time.

If you like to know more about Florence, SC read here please:
http://www.sciway.net/city/florence.html

My Wordless Sunday #25 - in Charleston, SC

The Church by Alice's Grave

The historic sign

The iron gate to the church and to the grave yard

They offer also healing services ,
and I thought only Benny Hinn is doing that :-)

The pretty little porch in front of the entrance to the small chapel

View trough the window into the chapel,
and a self portrait of the photographer too :-)

A nice decoration on a kid grave stone

And last but not least: where death is, there is also life!
An other photographer was doing in the same time some wedding pictures
in the grave yard, close by Alice's grave.

(About Alice's grave, see my post from yesterday!)

Spooky Friday and the Story of Alice's Ghost

On the same journey we've also visited Pawleys Island and the legendary grave yard

Pawleys Island, SC is located 70 miles north of Charleston and 25 miles south of Myrtle Beach and is known as one of the oldest summer resorts on the East Coast

I love old cemeteries and this one was very special in any kind

Here is also the writer J.Dickey buried who wrote the novel to the movie "Deliverance" filmed in 1972

The legendary grave stone of Alice Flagg who returns every night and people have seen her walking around her grave,
still looking for her lost wedding ring.

Notice please: there is no grass growing anymore around her grave!

Rest in peace Alice!

Welcome to the grave of Alice Flagg. It is said that Alice died of a fever in 1849 at the age of 15. She was the daughter of a wealthy area planter. She was also secretly engaged to a lumberman, a man whom her parents disapproved of. Alice wore the lumberman's ring around her neck on a ribbon until one day it was discovered by her brother. Alice's brother took the ring and threw it out of Alice's bedroom window. The ring disappeared into a salt marsh below.


It is said that Alice has been seen wandering the cemetery looking for her lost ring ever since her death. Local legend also says that if you walk backwards around her grave 13 times, you will feel a tug on your ring or ring finger.

The Big Charm of a Pretty Little Village - McClellanville #2

This is just one of many pretty houses there in McClellanville with the charming architecture of the South

and with those inviting big and cozy looking porches

This is just one of those many churches also in McClallenville, but I liked this one the best: the Episcopal Church that is built under a majestic shady big and old oak tree

"Is this nothing to ye who pass by?"

And a river runs trough...

The place to be on a lazy, sunny afternoon - but please without all the mosquitoes!

A "female" tree...... right??.... :-))

A dream of every kid is to have a REAL tree house
or in this case a "tree boat"
(click on the picture to see it why it's a boat)

There is no better place to watch the boats going in and out to the harbor


If you like to read more about this pretty little town at the coast of South Carolina, on the way to Myrtle Beach, so click here:

http://www.townofmcclellanville-sc.net
or here

http://www.townofmcclellanville-sc.net/history.html

Shrimp Boats in McClellanville, at the Coast of South Carolina

McClellanville, a small picturesque fishing village
at the Coast of South Carolina

I love harbor scenes and my first post about McClellanville is dedicated to the shrimp boats, sitting in the harbor, just coming back from the morning catch

I love details, like here: all the ropes they need on a boat

and the colorful nets

and all the poles in and around the boats

net details

more colorful details...

View in the back of a boat

Even rust can be beautiful...

pretty colors

Last Monday we drove up to the north at the coast line of South Carolina to visit a little fishing village with the name McClellanville. Today I'm showing you some picture impressions from the dock where the shrimp boats were sitting in the small harbor.

Tomorrow I will show you more photos from a picture book perfect surrounding and the small village it self. Stay tuned....


P.S. this is my #651 post today with more than 20'400 visitors!
Thank you all for stopping by almost every day and for having you as my loyal friends and for all your kind comments in all these days!

Tuesday Specials #12

Heron over the Everglades

Tuesday Specials

I had an idea 12 weeks ago about supporting my husband’s fine art paintings. I am going to call it “The Tuesday Specials” and every Tuesday I will present one painting from his collection of Key West pictures.

The pictures are from original paintings done in Acrylic and/or Oil…and some of them are already in famous collections all over the globe.

The originals that are available for purchase range in price from $ 695 to
$ 4,500 based on sizes. There are also prints available.

For more details see our website: www.vanhulstart.com .
For special requests please send an email (susanne49@yahoo.com)
or call me: 843-647-0821.

What Else Is To See in The Harbor ?

A black bird, sitting on the railings...

A group of Dolphins jumping in sunset light...
(btw, they were swimming too fast - or my camera was too slow)

Big seagull sailing...

And a happy dog!

It was very pleasant to watch all the life going on on that evening in the harbor at sunset time.

My Wordless Sunday #24 - in Charleston, SC

Wildflowers out of James Island

Aren't they beautiful, almost surreal?
I have no idea what kind of flowers these are

And they look like lost red trumpets out of a fairy book

Wildflowers on a bush with beautiful colors and interesting geometric shapes

This is a close up of a Yucca plant flower

Hundreds of little white bells are growing on a Yucca plant

The whole Yucca plant with the flower bunch

These wildflower photos are made in that little park area out of James Island, where I was yesterday afternoon. See also my post from yesterday.