26 November 2007

p h o t o g r a p h s

This is the beach at Hilton Head. I was standing fairly far up the beach when I took this one, and it was low tide, so you can't see the breakers. We came to this beach after eating Thanksgiving dinner at the community feast sponsored by St. Andrew's by the Sea.



This is me heading for the Pink House in Charleston, formerly a saloon and brothel, currently an art gallery. The street is the longest remaining cobblestone street in Charleston. It was paved in 1760 with stones brought from England as ships' ballast.



This is Charleston's Circular Congregational Church built in 1886. The graves date back to 1690.


I am so in love with cemeteries. These are stones from the Congregational Church cemetery. Death heads (the second photo) are my favorite. I was a Humanities major, so I spent a lot of time learning about grave markers as the first truly Caucasian American art.





The view from the Mary Field cemetery on Daufuskie Island out to the marsh.

3 comments:

Amy said...

I think I need a southern vacation. It looks so beautiful there!

Annie M. said...

I was just thinking the same thing! I am glad you had a good fun-filled Thanksgiving vacation!

Chou said...

I'm really happy to not be the only person who loves graveyards. They're so fascinating in an old moss-covered I wonder who these people were sort of way. There should be dashes between all of those, shouldn't there?

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