WW: Scenes from Litchfield

Just a few shots from Litchfield Beach, South Carolina.

Marsh/Waterway

There are many large oaks at Litchfield and along much of coastal South Carolina, including this one, known as the Broken Oak.

According to the marker, the Broken Oak has been like that for centuries.

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PH: Twisted!

This week's Photo Hunt challenge was to capture something "twisted."  I am always in awe of the fascinating twists and turns in nature, especially those of trees - the trunks, branches & limbs.

Oh, yes, I'm also fascinated by twisted minds, but there were no pictures available!

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WW: Marsh Views at Pawleys Island

Pawleys Island is home to world-famous Pawleys Island hammocks made by local artisans/ropemakers.

The resort town's slogan is "Arrogantly Shabby."

Pawleys Island, South Carolina, located 70 miles north of Charleston and 25 miles south of Myrtle Beach, is

known as one of the oldest summer resorts on the East Coast. 

(information taken from Town of Pawleys Island web site.)

The families of rice planters who owned plantations on the nearby rivers first settled Pawleys Island in the early 1700's. The planters knew that it was unhealthy for their families to remain on the rivers during the summer and that the seashore was much healthier. Even though they didn't know about malaria in the 1700's, they knew enough to get away! They moved their families, horses, cows, bedding, provisions and furniture to Pawleys in May of each year, where they remained until the first frost in November!


From this leisurely existence has developed the charm of Pawleys that still remains. Also still remaining are 12 residences in the historic district, which date from the late 1700's to the mid 1800's. Pawleys continues to be known for its shoeless, carefree, laid-back life style, which includes crabbing in the adjacent creeks, fishing, the stories of ghosts, the rope hammocks and the unspoiled, unsophisticated, casual, delightful stretch of wide beach and sand dunes.

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PH: ORANGE - in Sports, Recreation, Nature and Even Politics???

What fun I had with this week's Photo Hunt theme.  It's orange.  What in the world would I find that was orange?

As it turns out, there's a whole lot of orange around us.  And I even came across a picture that's over 25 years old that has orange in it. 

Sometimes there's orange in beautiful sunrises and sunsets. 

Do you see the orange halo around this Summerville street lamp?

I just happened to see an orange bike in a local parking lot.

Heavy machinery might be orange, like these two pieces of equipment at a local rental place.

The name of my blog might be "EX Marks the Spot" but, in these next three pictures, orange marks the spot - or spots - for work to be done.  Orange paint, orange flags, orange signs.

Okay, here's the really old photo - over 25 years old.  Tree, my son (now an attorney in DC who will kill me if he sees this photo) is wearing an orange life jacket.  Behind him are nephews Ross and Rodney (partially hidden) and daughter Tiffany.  Yep, they'll ALL kill me!

Yes, I'm being grandma again.  Orange gave me the opportunity to share another picture of grandson Harrison.

Quite a few sports teams have orange as one of their colors.

In South Carolina, orange means the Clemson Tigers.  Their blood runs orange.

And speaking of South Carolina, here's a picture from The State newspaper of Mark Sanford, our "Luv Guv."  If you're not from South Carolina, "orange" you glad he's not your governor?

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WW: Trees

Summerville, SC, passed a tree ordinance in 1847.  That ordinance, which is still on the books, reportedly was the first tree ordinance in the United States.  It's no wonder our town has beautiful trees throughout.

 

 

    TREES

by: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

"Trees" was originally published in Trees and Other Poems. Joyce Kilmer. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1914. 

 

 

 

 

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WW: Sunset at the Beach

God's Amazing Handiwork

What a world we live in!

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PH: How Low Can You Go?

This week's PhotoHunt theme is LOW and I've selected a variety of uses of that word for all of these photos.

Which card is low? Well, it depends on what game you're playing?




Here are my scales. When I stand on the scales, the number is never LOW enough!!!

There was a full moon this week. By the time I took this photo in the early, early morning, the moon was LOW.

Our part of South Carolina is called the Lowcountry. The Lowcountry is an area of beaches, old homes, magnificent trees, gorgeous flowers and so much more. So, here are a few Lowcountry scenes.

The walls in my house have Lowcountry scenes as well.

And, speaking of low, here's our South Carolina governor, Mark Sanford, the one who said he was out hiking the Appalachian Trail on Father's Day weekend. Instead of the trail or home with his wife and four sons, he was in Argentina with his mistress - and no one knew how to get in touch with him for 5 days! He neglected his family and our state. How LOW can you go?

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WW: Nature - All Within 24 Hours

What a difference a day makes! This is a beautiful stretch of beach near the Garden City/Surfside Beach line where South Carolina meets the Atlantic Ocean. Such beautiful colors and the wonderful sound of the waves rolling to the shore.

This photo below was taken within 24 hours and from the same spot, although facing a different direction. Hundreds of volunteers joined in rescue efforts to find a missing 13-year-old drowning victim. He was from Maryland and was with teammates for a baseball tournament in the Myrtle Beach area . It's now a week later and his body has still not been recovered.

On the very same afternoon, just a few miles away at Pawley's Island, a young father drowned while trying to save his son.

Nature - so beautiful, so mysterious and totally uncontrollable.

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