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A taste of Folly

Friday afternoon and I headed back out to Folly Beach, stopping briefly on the way to pick up some fresh flounder from Backman’s Seafood. Spent a relaxing evening roaming the island on a golf cart with Cos, and ended up cooking the flounder with sauteed spinach and a baked potato. Yummy – and what better way to end the week. I do love Folly, but more out of season when it’s not quite so full!

Uneventful Week

Nothing much happens during most weeks, aside from driving to work in the morning, running errands at lunchtime, driving home, walking the dog, swimming laps and a few variations like music practice or the occasional dinner with a friend. Today’s photo is borrowed from last Friday when Marty and I headed out to Folly Beach to check on how the sea oats are coming along this summer. They should be great this year because I’ve noticed they do well when we get enough rain. It was a pretty evening and we had taken a picnic which we enjoyed until it got dark and the gnats chased us off the beach. I plan to go back this weekend.

Summertime – and the living is lazy ..

Early yesterday morning I met a photographer buddy Raymond, and we tramped through a field of sunflowers over 6ft high in some cases, all wet with morning dew, photographing bright yellow flowers against the deep blue sky before moving on and targeting other spots on Johns Island. As soon as it began to get hot, I headed home and did a thorough “tick check” before showering and spending the rest of the day with typically 4th July activities. Here are a couple of pics taken in the sunflower field.

Bird’s eye view of Broad Street, Charleston

I had the opportunity to climb up to the roof of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Broad Street, Charleston this afternoon. They are adding a steeple – the first time the Cathedral has a steeple since 1861, when a fire destroyed the original Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar. It is still so HOT in Charleston, and we are barely into July. Heaven help us through the dog days of August.

Aaaaaarrrgghh – Pirates prey on children at waterfront

This weekend has been HOT. I have spent most of it down at the Charleston Maritime Center and the Passenger Terminal where there has been much activity both on land and on the water. Lots to do for everyone, but there were many who succombed to the heat and needed reviving, especially if they had partaken of too much rum punch. Talking of rum, I captured this pirate making off with a child on the wharf this afternoon. Wonder if he’ll eat his shoes as well!

The USCGC Eagle arrives in Charleston, SC

This morning I took a couple of hours off work and boarded the M/V Frolic, a classic 1939 Elco 44′ Cruiser belonging to the SC Maritime Foundation. We headed out into the harbor to photograph the arrival of the US Coastguard’s Eagle – a 295ft. barque, originally built in Germany in 1936, commissioned for service by Adolf Hitler, and secured by the US after the second World War as part of the war reparations. She is here for the Charleston Harborfest 2009. Hopefully when she leaves, she will be under sail.