Charleston, SC.

4-14-23 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: We’ve been here a few days as part of a 85^th Birthday Celebration for my college class. We’ve had a lot of meeting and remembering over dinners, but I want to talk about the city—it’s gorgeous. There are many houses, beautifully restored and preserved, a zillion churches, ancient government buildings of 18^th and 19^th centuries lovingly maintained. We walked around the city for two days and were very impressed with the beauty, the parks, the architecture, the huge, mossy trees, the cobblestones, the shuttle buses, the iron work and more.

It’s late so I will stop here, but will do more next post, but a few pix today.  

Not a classmate-a Black crowned night heron. There were several in the park at the harbor end of the city. I picked this pic to start because Facebook won't cut the bird in half.

The Charleston style house with the fancy front door on the side opening onto the porch. The porch ceilings are usually painted blue so that the ghosts will think that the ceiling is sky and won't hang around the house, so I am informed.

One of the many steeples around the city.

A live oak with passengers and another house with a porch.