 Lynda and Tica having a sit down |
 Debbie's wonderful house |
 Boone Hall |
 It was cool enough to wear long pants |
 But was humid |
 Cathedral in Savannah |
 The tour company we used |
 Open gardens in Savannah |
 Great alley with plantings |
 Fun pots |
 Cool porch |
 Chock full of plants |
 Where Lynda sat to cool off |
 Tree-lined streets |
 Front yard of where they held the tea |
 Fabulous house |
 The Market Square in Savannah |
 Oh those crazy Confederates |
 Standing in the blazing sun in wool uniforms |
 And pledging allegiance to both the USA flag and Confederate flag hooee |
 And women in big hoop skirts |
 The wonderful fountain |
 Lynda listened to live music at the Market Place |
 On Lulu's front porch overlooking Ocean Blvd in Myrtle Beach |
 Don and Tica |
 Consoling Tica and Kristal upset at some construction noise |
 At Brookgreen Gardens |
 Poppies were eye-popping |
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 Posing at Brookgreen |
 Water lilies |
 More poppies by the other fountain |
 Hard not to take photos of them |
 Kathy in Children's Garden |
 Pansies still blooming |
 Delphiniums at Brookgreen! |
 More water lilies |
 Delphiniums and others at Brookgreen |
 Love the reflections |
 Kathy by the luscious foxgloves |
 Taking a photo of the spectacular poppies |
 Amazing bald cypress at Rhodes Pond |
 Posing by the bald cypress |
 Geeks a-gawkin at Rhodes Pond |
 At a gas station in NC |
 Fun fun Sunflower Shop in NC |
 The woman who ran this shop was incredibly nice and friendly |
 In front of the Sarah Duke Gardens welcome center |
 Dancing in the entrance to the Native Plants area |
 Sweeping tiered beds |
 Walking the pea gravel path |
 View down into the little valley |
 Feeding the ducks and turtles |
 Posing in the Japanese garden |
 Wonderous new garden |
 From the other direction |
 Also in front of the welcome center |
 Beautiful gazebo in the Native Plants area |
 Posing on the steps over the pond |
 At the Sarah Duke Gardens |
 Amazing clematis |
 Gazebo with wisteria |
 Tiers of perennials |
 More of the tiers |
 Posing on stepping stones |
 The fountains in the perennial tiers |
 The new fountain courtyard at Sarah Duke |
 Next day, off to Plant Delights Nursery |
 Oooooooooooooooooooo |
 Peony |
 Pitcher plant blooms |
 Wow |
 Pretty posy in the ivy |
 Voodoo plants! |
 Special orchid |
 Pitcher plant blooms |
 At Plant Delights nursery, the only day it was cool |
 Plant Delights' wonderful beds |
 And pots |
 The fallen petals looked like dappled sunshine |
 I'm pretending I'm not chilly; I bought a t-shirt |
 Great contrast |
 I'll take all those |
 At Plant Delights |
 Wondeful mix |
 Down to a new pond |
 More intriguing orchids |
 Gazebo perch |
 I bought one of the bog plant pots |
 Odd steaming art in Chapel Hill |
 North Carolina Botanical Gardens |
 Water barrels |
 Chess |
 Inspecting their fun gardens |
 Great education buildings |
 Great place to sit |
 and look at this sculpture |
 Paths in the woods |
 at the Chapel Hill Garden Club Garden Tour |
 How the open gardens were indicated |
 Side walkway |
 Visiting gardens |
 The gravel drive continues |
 Flurries of flowrs |
 Detailing the very full front yard |
 Plants! |
 Nice garden |
 Hostas growing very well |
 Nice sculpture |
 What a petunia |
 Deck loaded with annuals |
 Peony |
 Charming garden entrance |
 Great garden furniture |
 Garden gazebo with moss lawn |
 Another pretty posy |
 Checking out the garden art for sale |
 What is that name? |
 Posing frog |
 Fairy house |
 Huge snowball bush |
 In one of the Chapel Hill gardens |
 Long gravel driveway to cliff house |
 Steps down |
 The house it at the top of a steep, steep ravine |
 Seriously, I believe they tie themselves off to the house before they work on those plants |
 Impressive raised beds |
 A large stand of pussytoes |
 Nearly wild front yard |
 You enter this house through the backyard |
 Lynda keeping her neck from burning |
 Daylilies thriving in the shade |
 Amazing tiered garden |
 Light flower beds |
 Great new fireplace and furniture |
 And fun veggie garden |
 Steps up to the house |
 In Fuquay, NC, where everything closes at 2 on Saturday |
 Beautiful sunset at the Blockade Runner in Wilmington, NC |
 Calling Don from our balcony |
 Pointing out the obvious |
 Fun seating at the Blockade Runner hotel |
 In Blockade Runner lobby with fuzzy pillow |
 The boardwalk out to the beach |
 Pumping sand from one end of the beach to the other |
 Lynda's sunset shot |
 and her view from her room at the Blockade Runner |
 View from our room, wonderful plantings and the ocean |
 Great jam-packed plantings |
 Lynda enjoying the sunshine before it got too hot |
 Meditating on the shore |
 Venus Flytrap in Wilmington, NC |
 Fitting description |
 Fun brunch |
 Buying a wonderful bracelet in Wilmington |
 Back in Myrtle Beach, on Sunmaid Pier |
 Don really enjoyed having Kathy and Lynda around |
 View south from Springmaid Pier |
 view north |
 Don and Lynda |
 Don and Kathy trying out big chair |
 Hurricane machine |
 In Murrells Inlet |
 Off to Charleston |
 That water felt SO GOOD, it was very hot |
 Pollarded trees |
 So much going on in this photo |
 Confederate something |
 I swear the woman in the hat is Yoko Ono |
 Petting Dan the horse |
 Charleston is beautiful |
 Sending text in Charleston |
 Two hotties on a pedicab |
 Creepy old jail |
 Breakfast at Toast |
 Buying fun stuff at the Marketplace in Charleston |
 Schmile! |
 GREAT cemetery with overgrown perennials |
 We were so hot and tired we couldn't see straight |
 The wonderful courtyard at our hotel |
 Lynda enjoying the courtyard |
 Horsies |
 Kathy trying on a fascinator |
 Our little hotel in the background |
 Lynda in Myrtle Beach |