Charleston 2011

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Dina, Kathleen, Carolyn, and Deirdre	On Friday, Kathleen, Carolyn, and Dina take a carriage ride to get our bearings in Charleston.	A typical Charleston house -- privacy door on ground floor allowed residents to sleep on the piazzas during hot weather.	This house was so significant, its fence and gate were spared when iron was scavenged during the Civil War.
After the carriage ride, Deirdre joined us for a walk through historic downtown Charleston.	The Nathaniel Russel House, a federal style home built before 1809. It has a free-standing cantilevered spiral staircase.	While waiting for our tour of the house, Deirdre and Kathleen tried out the joggling board in the garden.	Carolyn and Dina enjoyed it too.
Many of the older houses have stone steps at the curb dating from carriage days, when the sidewalks were dirt/mud.	In the movie "The Patriot," an effigy of King George was burned in front of this building,	while Mel Gibson and his family watch from this building across the street.	An example of the beautiful ironwork all over Charleston.
Carolyn and Kathleen tried to get into this circular church all weekend, to no avail.	The numerous steeples that dot the city's skyline speak to the number of churches, thus the nickname "Holy City."	Market Hall, built in the 1790s, is the first of a series of buildings that comprise the old meat, fish, and produce markets.	Dinner at Hominy Grill on Friday night. Delicious food! Chocolate pudding!
Saturday morning, after the farmers' market, Deirdre drove us out to Boone Hall plantation.	An undulating brick wall, in front of the house.	The avenue lined with live oaks. "North and South" was filmed here.	Waiting for the house tour to begin.
The skilled slaves lived in these brick houses.	Inside one of the slave quarters.	The Boone family was wealthy enough to allow just one slave family per house.	There were 3 "streets" of slave houses originally.
Back in Charleston, Carolyn and Kathleen find "Rainbow Row" on the way to the Battery, after dinner.	The sun is beginning to set.	Dina, Carolyn, and Kathleen are meeting up to see Deirdre perform with her pipe and drum band.	Here's the house where the pipe and drum band will perform.
Another beautiful house on the Battery.	Warming up.	The guests watch from the piazzas, as the sun goes down.	Sunday morning, a visit to the beach!
Kathleen, Dina, and Carolyn, with the lighthouse in the distance.	Carolyn on the boardwalk we took to/from the beach.	The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the Americas. It looks like a 2-masted sailing ship.	On the bridge, approaching the towers. Dina is driving.
Beautiful!	Dina and Carolyn have to leave, but Deirdre takes Kathleen to Magnolia Gardens plantation.	There are several pretty bridges throughout the gardens.
The trees had grown around this plank, creating a bench.	Another quaint garden bridge.	Deirdre framed this photo. Perfect!	We kept hearing peacock cries, then we finally found him!
	Kathleen and Deirdre had an early dinner on Shem Creek. Shrimp boats were docked nearby.	After dinner, Kathleen took one final tour through lower Charleston.	An interesting gate, gaslight lantern, and pretty front garden.
More ironwork.	Another nice gate . . .	in front of a beautiful old home on a back street.	The windows in the cuppola allowed the hot air to be vented from this house in the summer.
	Italianate features.	Stone pineapples (the symbol of welcome in Charleston) and creeping fig on an old brick house.	More beautiful ironwork.
The light is fading. Good night, Charleston!

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