At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
~ Theodosia Garrison ~
Back to their quiet graves below.
~ Theodosia Garrison ~
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
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simple is beautiful
Sue's Daily Photography: October 2008
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Friday 31 October 2008Thursday 30 October 2008Human beings are human beings Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they?
They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet. ~ Dennis Miller ~ Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's EASY, sign up HERE and it's FREE! Visit please my e-Shop Wednesday 29 October 2008Slamming Doors... Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting. ~ Perry Como ~ My NEW CALENDARS 2009 are available now to buy here. They make a great gift for the coming Holidays, don't be late :) Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's EASY, sign up HERE and it's FREE! Visit please my e-Shop Tuesday 28 October 2008Automne is a second spring... My NEW CALENDARS 2009 are available now to buy: * CHARLESTON CALENDARS 2009 * KEY WEST CALENDARS 2009 * FLORIDA CALENDARS 2009 * FLOWER CALENDARS 2009 Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's EASY, sign up HERE and it's FREE! Visit please my e-Shop Monday 27 October 2008It's near Halloween... When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near Halloween. ~Author Unknown My NEW CALENDARS 2009 are available now to buy. * CHARLESTON CALENDARS 2009 * KEY WEST CALENDARS 2009 * FLORIDA CALENDARS 2009 * FLOWER CALENDARS 2009 Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's EASY, sign up HERE and it's FREE! Sunday 26 October 2008Saturday 25 October 2008We say we love flowers... “We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.” ~ unknown quote ~ My NEW FLOWER CALENDARS 2009 are available now to buy. Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's EASY, sign up HERE and it's FREE! Visit please my e-Shop Friday 24 October 2008The Village Blacksmith The blacksmith at Middleton Place is working on his pieces He is also creating pretty art work Everything one need in a horse barn, the blacksmith is making it too Some decorative items crafted from the blacksmith The blacksmith at work(ALL the photographs on my blog from Middleton Place are NOT for sale!) I've found a poem about the blacksmith. I'm sure, some of you remember this one well from your time back in school, right? Enjoy! The Village Blacksmith Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipe A tear out of his eyes. Toiling,--rejoicing,--sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem: The Village Blacksmith Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's EASY, sign up HERE and it's FREE! Visit please my e-Shop Thursday 23 October 2008Spanish Moss in Fall Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's EASY, sign up HERE and it's FREE! Visit please my e-Shop Wednesday 22 October 2008The Horses at Middleton Place Another view of the Plantation House at Middleton Place The horse barn Two new horses for the carriage rides They need enough water to drink before they start the job in the hot sun The carriage goes out to pick up the tourists toguide them around Middleton Place (I made more photos about Middleton Place, please stay tuned and come back every day!) (All the photos made from Middleton Place are NOT for sale) The NEW CHARLESTON and KEY WEST CALENDARS 2009 are available now to buy! Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's easy, sign up HERE and it's FREE! Visit please my e-Shop Tuesday 21 October 2008I can't change the wind.... “I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean ~ Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog!
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The sculpture of these happy musicians is standing in Middleton Place gardens. Ain't they cute? The NEW CALENDARS 2009 are available now to buy! Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's easy, sign up HERE, and it's FREE! Visit my e-Shop Sunday 19 October 2008Saturday 18 October 2008Middleton Place Plantation - Part 1 Middleton Place Plantation House(ALL the photos in these series are NOT for sale!)  View from the gate down to the Ashley river  A beautiful garden complex with ponds and the Ashley river in the back, very pretty in springtime for sure! Pretty garden sculptures in nice surroundings Majestic old oak trees are standing allover Middleton Placeis a historic plantation with gardens located along the Ashley River at 4300 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina. The plantation was established in 1741 by Henry Middleton, President of the First Continental Congress, and was home to generations of the family including Henry's son, Arthur Middleton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence; Arthur Middleton's son, Henry Middleton, Governor of South Carolina and U.S. Minister to Russia; and his son in turn, Williams Middleton, who signed the Ordinance of Secession. The original main house was three stories tall, built of brick in Jacobean-name and flanked by two story wings. The north wing contained a library and ballroom, while the south wing was used as a guest house. New records show that Middleton Place imported water buffalo from Constantinople in the late 1700s. These records show that these water buffalo were the first in the United States. In 1865, near the end of the Civil War, the plantation was burned and looted by Union troops in retaliation for the owner's signing of the Ordinance of Secession. The soldiers killed and ate five of the water buffalo and stole six. These six later showed up in Central Park Zoo. Only the south building survived (built 1755), which is now the Middleton Place House Museum. Its gardens were further damaged by the great Charleston earthquake of 1886, and lay neglected until inherited by J. J. Pringle Smith in 1916, who then began their restoration. In 1941, on the garden's bicentennial, the Garden Club of America presented it with the Bulkley Medal "in commemoration of Two Hundred Years of enduring Beauty." It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.[1][3] In 1974 Smith's heirs donated the plantation to the non-profit Middleton Place Foundation.[citation needed] Today the plantation's house museum contains a collection of Middleton family furniture, paintings, books, and documents dating from the 1740s through the 1880s. The formal gardens consist of symmetric landscaped terraces, allées, ponds, and garden rooms. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) has named them one of six American gardens of international importance.[citation needed] The property is listed at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.[4] In the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot, General Cornwallis is shown having a banquet at Middleton Place.[citation needed] Arthur Middleton was born at the house, and is buried there. 10 miles southeast of Summerville on South Carolina Rt. 61. / 12.5 miles northwest of Charleston on Rt. 61. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged. Friday 17 October 2008Thursday 16 October 2008The Frog We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
~ Mao Tse-Tung ~ For your educational fun: Frog translations: Frog in Afrikaans is padda Frog in Dutch is kikker, kikvors Frog in Finnish is sammakko Frog in French is grenouille Frog in German is Frosch Frog in Italian is rana Frog in Norwegian is frosk Frog in Spanish is rana Frog in Swedish is groda * my friend in Greece wrote me this: frog in greek is Vatraxos (Βάτραχος) Wednesday 15 October 2008View trough the fence... Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. ~ Luther Burbank ~ Tuesday 14 October 2008Live Your Life When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ~ White Elk ~ my NEW CALENDARS for 2009 are available to buy Monday 13 October 2008October Gold October's Party
"October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came- The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band." ~ George Cooper ~ The NEW CALENDARS 2009 are available now to buy here Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's easy, sign up HERE, it's FREE! Visit my e-Shop please Sunday 12 October 2008Saturday 11 October 2008Isn't she beautiful....? I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale,
you could not ignore its beauty. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe ~ my NEW FLOWER CALENDARS 2009 are available here to buy! Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's easy, sign up HERE, it's FREE! Visit my e-Shop please Friday 10 October 2008It's a Painting, it's a Photo? I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
~ Pablo Picasso ~ The NEW CALENDARS 2009 are available now to buy! Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's easy, sign up HERE, it's FREE! Visit my e-Shop Thursday 9 October 2008Sparkling Sunlight in the Trees African-American Cemetery The African American cemetery at Charles Towne Landing dates from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. In 1974 research on the cemetery was published by John Combs from the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. This paper is recognized as the first academic study of African American burial practices and cemeteries in the United States. The cemetery continues to be a research focus for the park. Wednesday 8 October 2008Pink and Green  If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ The NEW CALENDARS 2009 are available now to buy Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's easy to sign up HERE, and it's FREE! or visit my e-Shop Tuesday 7 October 2008Fall is just around the corner.... Fall leaf in the park - fall is here pretty soonWhere there is much light, the shadow is deep. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~ 1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog!
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It's easy - sign up HERE, and it's FREE! Visit my e-Shop Sunday 5 October 2008Saturday 4 October 2008Butterfly and Bumble Bee The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.~Rabindranath Tagore~  Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.~Robert Green Ingersoll~ my NEW FLOWER CALENDARS 2009 are available now Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's easy! Sign up HERE, it's FREE! Visit my e-Shop Friday 3 October 2008Twins for Life "A joy that is shared Is a joy made double." ~English Proverb~ The NEW CALENDARS 2009 are available now. Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's easy to sign up HERE, it's FREE! Visit also my e-Shop Thursday 2 October 2008The Doors of our Souls “When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.”
~Michael Bridge~ Wednesday 1 October 2008Friendship and Green Ivy House in Down Town CharlestonFalse friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces;
but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ~Richard Burton~ The NEW CALENDARS 2009 are available now. Make good MONEY online, display CBproAds on your blog! It's easy to sign up HERE, it's FREE! Visit also my e-Shop
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