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Very nice, Gordon. I may need to do a similar tour around Charleston.
When I see the Spanish moss and the willows I think of "Creepy Hollows" not in the bad way just the headless horseman way.
It really is quite beautiful, tho lacking in palm trees. ;-)
It really is quite beautiful, tho lacking in palm trees. ;-)
Great pics, Gordon. We got introduced to the beauty of the Live Oak trees while staying with friends on Jekyll Island a couple of years ago. Amazing structure to say the least.
You're making me sad that I didn't buy that land two years ago. I was SOOO close.
This is THE Primo time of the year, because the azeleas and dogwoods and magnolias and everything else that can blossom in the Spring is doing it now. We'll be in Savannah on Monday and I'll see if we have time to swing by Forsythe Park, where the famous park bench scene from Forest Gump was filmed. The entire 16-block historic district will be alive in blossoms next week and Forsythe Park is amazing when the color is in.
Of course, the other side of all those blossoms is living on double doses of Claritin or something for a few months - OH! And the pine pollen is so thick that my dark green truck is bright yellow every morning til I wash it at the handy-wash.
We have a street here in Beaufort that is also exploding in blossoms but it's not quite peaking yet - maybe next week - so I'll swing into town and maybe do a video driving down Ribaut and Bay streets and post that. I've loved fall foliage in New England all my life, but it can't even come close to spring down here.
Interesting that I didn't see any palm trees in those photos, either. We have four different types here, and I have three of those types in my yard. Some of them grow as tall as Oaks or Hickory trees (30-60 feet) while the palmettos only get up to 20-30 feet. I've actually seen snakes climbing up palm trees. You wouldn't think that they could get a good grip, but they crawl or slink or whateverthehell they do right up the side of the trunk - not around it, but right up the side.
Of course, the other side of all those blossoms is living on double doses of Claritin or something for a few months - OH! And the pine pollen is so thick that my dark green truck is bright yellow every morning til I wash it at the handy-wash.
We have a street here in Beaufort that is also exploding in blossoms but it's not quite peaking yet - maybe next week - so I'll swing into town and maybe do a video driving down Ribaut and Bay streets and post that. I've loved fall foliage in New England all my life, but it can't even come close to spring down here.
Interesting that I didn't see any palm trees in those photos, either. We have four different types here, and I have three of those types in my yard. Some of them grow as tall as Oaks or Hickory trees (30-60 feet) while the palmettos only get up to 20-30 feet. I've actually seen snakes climbing up palm trees. You wouldn't think that they could get a good grip, but they crawl or slink or whateverthehell they do right up the side of the trunk - not around it, but right up the side.
Gordon- absolutely sensational--I think you missed your calling as a pro photographer!
I did live there in the historic district one summer---a house right across the tidal pond. Just summer work between college years. Loved every minute of it.
How fortunate you are to have places both in Mass. and Beaufort--how fortunate we are that you share it with us.
Nice looking car in some of those shots!
I did live there in the historic district one summer---a house right across the tidal pond. Just summer work between college years. Loved every minute of it.
How fortunate you are to have places both in Mass. and Beaufort--how fortunate we are that you share it with us.
Nice looking car in some of those shots!
Cool photos and commentary.
Bob
Bob
JACK!!
Where you used to live is about 200 Yards from the Edgar Fripp house, used in "The Big Chill". Go east from the inlet, North for two blocks and hang a right and you're there. I think that you lived across the street from the open 'park' that was used in the touch football scene in the film.
Our schedule got tight today, and we couldn't get to Forsythe Park. Gotta go back on Thursday and we'll try again, then (gotta love doctor visits). In the meantime, I'll try to get a video of Ribaut and Bay streets in Beaufort to get you're "Spring" off to a good start. Might not be in the Speedstah, but you'll get the idea. It's pretty here this time of the year.
Where you used to live is about 200 Yards from the Edgar Fripp house, used in "The Big Chill". Go east from the inlet, North for two blocks and hang a right and you're there. I think that you lived across the street from the open 'park' that was used in the touch football scene in the film.
Our schedule got tight today, and we couldn't get to Forsythe Park. Gotta go back on Thursday and we'll try again, then (gotta love doctor visits). In the meantime, I'll try to get a video of Ribaut and Bay streets in Beaufort to get you're "Spring" off to a good start. Might not be in the Speedstah, but you'll get the idea. It's pretty here this time of the year.
Nice photos! I went to boot camp at Parris Island and the area is very pretty!! We now live five hours up the coast from Beaufort near Camp Lejeune. It is going to be 84 degrees out today...yep sounds like Spyder weather!!
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I'm sold ... great photo essay. Looks like a future destination.
Now let's see, are you in Bew-fort or Bo-fort?
Now let's see, are you in Bew-fort or Bo-fort?
Would you say a lovely woman is botiful? I think not.
This here's Bew-fort.
Bo-Fort is up on the coast of NORTH Carolina.
Both towns were named for the same guy - Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort.
The Dude got around.
I live in Port Royal, which is right adjacent to Parris Island (we can hear the practice on the rifle range every morning - it's about 1-1/2 miles from the back yard).
Port Royal pre-dates St. Augustine, FL, as a settlement, established by Jacque Ribaut in 1562, but the initial settlers left within a couple of years to be replaced by the Spanish some years later, and then the Scottish in the 1700's (Google Tuscarora Jack for more).
We're also home to one of the oldest soft shell crab festivals on the east coast, coming up in mid April. Y'all C'mon Down!
This week and next are absolutely the best time to see greater Beaufort (as well as Savannah, GA) because everything is exploding in blossoms right now. Yu all have no idea how many flowering azeleas and camellias and dogwoods and so forth have been planted around here since the early 1700's. They are everywhere. Absolutely gorgeous. One plantation alone (Drayton Hall and Magnolia Plantation) up near Lane in Charleston has over 300 acres of planted gardens in a wooded setting with thousands of flowering bushes and trees. Remember.....planters were VERY wealthy and showed off their wealth in large, beautiful houses and grounds.
I'm thinking of riding around and getting pictures from sites used in Forest Gump. There are a bunch of notable sites within 15 minutes of the house, although his "Mother's" house is up in Lobeco, about 20 minutes away. We'll see.
Bo-Fort is up on the coast of NORTH Carolina.
Both towns were named for the same guy - Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort.
The Dude got around.
I live in Port Royal, which is right adjacent to Parris Island (we can hear the practice on the rifle range every morning - it's about 1-1/2 miles from the back yard).
Port Royal pre-dates St. Augustine, FL, as a settlement, established by Jacque Ribaut in 1562, but the initial settlers left within a couple of years to be replaced by the Spanish some years later, and then the Scottish in the 1700's (Google Tuscarora Jack for more).
We're also home to one of the oldest soft shell crab festivals on the east coast, coming up in mid April. Y'all C'mon Down!
This week and next are absolutely the best time to see greater Beaufort (as well as Savannah, GA) because everything is exploding in blossoms right now. Yu all have no idea how many flowering azeleas and camellias and dogwoods and so forth have been planted around here since the early 1700's. They are everywhere. Absolutely gorgeous. One plantation alone (Drayton Hall and Magnolia Plantation) up near Lane in Charleston has over 300 acres of planted gardens in a wooded setting with thousands of flowering bushes and trees. Remember.....planters were VERY wealthy and showed off their wealth in large, beautiful houses and grounds.
I'm thinking of riding around and getting pictures from sites used in Forest Gump. There are a bunch of notable sites within 15 minutes of the house, although his "Mother's" house is up in Lobeco, about 20 minutes away. We'll see.