by admin | Feb 19, 2010 | Edisto Beach State Park, General, Palms and Palmettos
I was thinking about Southern trees again today, I realized I really don’t know the difference between a palmetto tree and a palm tree. So I Googled it—Only one answer was definitive: “The palmetto tree has an “etto” at the end and the palm...
by admin | Feb 17, 2010 | Along the Journey, General
By William Francis Ahearn Many cities across the world have startlingly beautiful individual trees. Charleston’s Angel Oak Tree on Johns Island is easily among the trees at top of that list: The Angel Oak, is a wondrous Southern live oak (quercus virginiana),...
by admin | Feb 15, 2010 | General, Mt. Rushmore National Park
South Dakota—Carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota are the iconic faces of four former presidents of the United States–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. These men were chosen to represent the first 150 years of...
by admin | Feb 12, 2010 | Along the Journey, General
On Wednesday afternoon, my dog Minna and I, took a brisk walk on Edisto (e-DIS-toe) beach. Off to the west high faint, wispy, fast-moving clouds were a unique sight because nothing really moves very fast in South Carolina. “Ceptin’ mebbe a white-tailed deer, or...
by admin | Feb 10, 2010 | Along the Journey, General
Traveling is a wonderful adventure peppered with tiny unimportant inconveniences. Each journey I have been on in my life has always included someone for me to look after. Now I am by myself—on my own. My dog Minna not excluded but how much trouble can she be? Yet each...
by admin | Feb 6, 2010 | Along the Journey, General
Some folks have emailed and twittered asking how I am managing in a little trailer with my right hand in a brace, quarters 3 feet by six feet = 36 square feet of floor space and no cabinets. No one ever promised this would be easy only that it would be an adventure...
