Yesterday was a nice day. The weather was much cooler. In fact, the sun didn't come out till around 2 so it was almost cool enough to wear a sweater in the morning. Very nice for a change and that also meant my energy level was up.
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| Charleston street |
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| Downtown home |
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So...we went to downtown Charleston early, before most of the tourists showed up. Parking was easy and free since it was Sunday. Lots of history and fancy old mansions downtown. I was hoping to take the homes and gardens tour, but it was sold out for several days and I didn't want to go bad enough to hang around a couple extra days. As much as I am enjoying the trip, home sounds pretty good too. As fancy as the downtown is, I wandered around some of the streets off the main drag, and there was definably a lot less money. I guess that's true of a lot of cities. Look at LA.
We then headed to the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. I believe they said it was 500 some acres. It was large and every bit was spectacularly landscaped. Old grown too. Lots of photographers there. I enjoyed chatting with several of them. I even got a couple pictures I want to work on when I got home. They had a hedge maze like in those old movies and books. Had to wander around in it. It's harder than you think to find your way to the middle. Fun though.
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| Plantation home |
From there is was on to the Swamp Gardens, attached to the plantation, but with a separate fee. Not as many pictures, but lots of herons nesting and a bunch of alligators. One big guy was right off the path. We were warned before getting to him, so Cash wasn't lunch. A kid held Cash for me a safe distance away while I went up and took the gators picture.
All in all a nice day.
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