Thanksgiving is here!

May your holiday be peaceful and happy! Happy Thanksgiving to my readers--you are a blessing to me with your faithful visits and comments and many of you have become friends. Have a great day!

Bridge Wedding

Many brides choose to get married in the park underneath the bridge. It's a great time of year for the weddings, the worst heat of summer is past.

Here she comes!

The bride is beautiful and look at that big pretty bouquet!

This doggie pauses and listens. He's been running and playing hard, not realizing he's a guest at a wedding!

 I wonder what he was thinking?

Bottles Blue

They sit in the yard at this house on George Street:

The Middleton/Pinckney house was built in 1796 by John Middleton's widow. Isn't it interesting? It's now the headquarters of the Spoleto Festival every year in Charleston.

I love blue bottles, how 'bout y'all?

Window Boxes

One of my most favorite scenes in Charleston are these beautiful loaded window boxes!

I made these pictures on a sweltering summer day and I love summer but it's starting to cool down now in the 70s and it's so refreshing and just wonderful weather to be outside!

And the Rain came down...

It was a wet wet day in Charleston...

and everybody still came out to play! The streets and sidewalks were still busy.

These Citadel cadets weren't going to let a little rain dampen their spirits.

Blurry pictures for a blurry day..........

I spotted these high up in a tree..........lemons?

so I went in for a closer look...........

maybe not lemons after all?

makes you think of Abbey Road?

Spotted these kayakers in the harbor so stopped to make pictures as they paddled by

This pair seemed happy to be out running in the cold rain:

and off they go.....into the mist.

I like rainy days.......do you?

the Old High School

If you've been reading here awhile, you might remember the recent post a  month or so month about Miss Lois Hazelhurst. And how I wondered where she might've attended school. I mentioned this high school as a possibility. 

to see Lois' story, click below:

A Charleston Young Lady-Lois' Story

So when we were in this neighborhood totally searching for ANOTHER PROPERTY I was writing about-- I was very surprised to see that here we were, at the old Charleston High School. 

The columns are beautiful and majestic!

I stood  here and tried to imagine students back in the 1800s climbing these very steps to attend classes each day. They might've  LOOKED different (their clothing, hairstyles, etc.)--but teenagers are teenagers no matter the era. I'm sure alot of jostling and good natured teasing went on at the end of the day, as the students tumbled out, down those stairs, and headed on their way home. Heavy books were clutched, stomachs grumbled with hunger, pretty girls flirted, and the clip-clop of horses hooves could be heard up and down Society Street.
Many students hurried home to help with younger brothers and sisters, or to piano or voice lessons. Many young boys held after-school jobs to earn a little spending money. They might have worked at the local pharmacies or grocery stores delivering groceries, or apprenticed with a silversmith or cobbler to learn a trade. Or perhaps helped out at one of the numerous stables or in the kitchen at a restaurant.  A young lady in that time might have worked as a "mother's helper" to  prepare her for a governess position, and if she could play the harp or sing--she could likely earn some money in teaching those skills as well. Young ladies also worked in shops waiting on customers.
 I'm sure girls and boys had crushes on each other just as they do these days. And I'm sure kids from that era yearned for popularity and acceptance and good looks and talent just as today's youth do. High school students in this era had study hall and library time just like today's students. A hard Math test is a hard math test---whether it's 1868 or 2016, right? 
 We happened upon the old school  at the right time of day....the lighting was so pretty and gave the building a wonderful "creamsicle" glow. 

Pretty Pink building!

Its a pretty old building, isn't it? And just look at all the amazing intricate carving! I love the big tall columns.

fine and fancy workmanship!

The building has been renovated into condos now, so I could only photograph the front of the building. There may be a lovely lawn out back. Maybe even a pool. I am thinking that this building was NOT PINK back in it's high school days---what do y'all think?
Would you like to live there?