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On the road into and out of town -- if you didn't happen to pick one up in Charleston proper -- you can buy a basket from the friendly craftswomen lining Route 17. I'm telling you, the sweetgrass baskets are so beautiful and exquisitely made, I really do have trouble passing them up.
On Route 17, north of Charleston, South Carolina, USA, July 2007.
Benedick enjoying the season beneath the Amaltas (Hindi name )tree.Flowering season is in April.Do you know the botanical name?
The Angel Oak is thought to be one of the oldest living things east of the Mississippi River. Acorns from the Angel Oak have grown to produce authentic direct-offspring trees.. Live oaks generally grow out and not up, but the Angel Oak has had plenty of time to do both, standing 65 ft high and with a canopy providing 17,000 square feet of shade. Its limbs, the size of tree trunks themselves, are so large and heavy that some of them rest on the ground (some even drop underground for a few feet and then come back up), a feature common to only the very oldest live oaks. It has survived countless hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and human interference.
Towering over 65 feet high, the Angel Oak has shaded John's Island, South Carolina, for over 1400 years, and would have sprouted 1000 years before Columbus' arrival in the New World. Recorded history traces the ownership of the live oak and surrounding land, back to the year 1717 when Abraham Waight received it as part of a small land grant. The tree stayed in the Waight family for four generations, and was part of a Marriage Settlement to Justus Angel and Martha Waight Tucker Angel. In modern times, the Angel Oak has become the focal point of a public park. Today the live oak has a diameter of spread reaching 160 feet, a circumference of nearly 25 feet, and covers 17,100 square feet of ground.
Taken on a lunch trip up to the Holmfirth Road. I managed to get some way up the road but it was blocked due to the snow. I had to turn round and when I got further down the road the Highways Authority had closed the snow gates.
I did get out the car at the top of the moors but it was blowing a gale with drifting snow, it was just too cold to take any photos. My hands wouldnt work.
I wasn't going to buy any more APS cameras but I saw a cool looking Nexia Q1 and I could not resist. I still have about 20 rolls of APS film, too bad I have had to start sending APS out since the local CVS can no longer process it. Kodak Advantix 200 film expired 2/2012.
There were strange sounds coming from the garden this morning. There was a family of birds high up in tree, who were growning increasingly nervous at the presence of a very interested cat sitting, waiting, watching, thinking. The cat wasn't too happy when a squirrel appeared, and started running up & down the tree trunk, completely unphased!
What a cool start to the wkend!
Photo taken in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Carlos.
Massive trees down at CDU Casuarina oval along Dripstone Road.
My first panorama, stitched together from three original photos.
Blogged here: www.sallysetsforth.com/index/tropical-cyclone-carlos