Share Welcome to Pictures of Charleston, our newest regular feature and because alliteration is always fun, look for it every Friday in Friday Photos. So let’s get started with pictures of St. Philip”s Episcopal Church. Charleston is known as the Holy City and St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, one of Charleston’s oldest, most famous and beautiful churches,…
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Vote for Charleston as the South’s tastiest town
Share Here’s one more opportunity for Charleston to gather another award. Southern Living is asking you to vote for the South’s tastiest towns and you could win a $2500 trip to the town of your choice. With all the great Charleston restaurants, you’ll become a Charleston foodie too.
Welcome to winter Charleston style
Share Today is the first day of winter but it feels more like the first day of spring in Charleston. So if you happen to be living in the Northeast or Midwest and you have gotten tired of the cold and snow over the years and might like to relocate to warmer weather, you might…
[Good news] Another uneventful hurricane season in Charleston ends
Share Many people considering moving to Charleston are understandably concerned about hurricanes. It’s been 22 years since Hurricane Hugo devastated the Lowcountry and I first visited Charleston a couple of years after that and saw not just the devastation but the massive rebuilding and believe it or not, Charleston is actually a better place as…
[Pine straw] A Charleston garden fixture
Share Just as important as the plants you’ll find in Charleston gardens including azaleas, camellias, tea olives, crepe myrtles and many others is the bedding material and more often than not, Charleston gardeners choose pine straw. Southern pines are rather plentiful and you may or may not be lucky enough to have pine trees on…
Happy Labor Day
Share Even though Labor Day marks the unofficial end to summer, there will still be another month of warm weather in Charleston. And if you have the day off work, there are lots of things to do like going to the beach, playing golf or having family and friends over and grilling out. So for the…
SC Tax Free weekend
Share Save money on back to school shopping during South Carolina’s tax free weekend. Always one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year as parents get ready to send their children back to school, stores across the Charleston area pull out all the stops to get you to shop. And there are always some…
Sail Charleston
Share It’s sometimes amazing and always beautiful to see just how many sailboats fill Charleston harbor in a typical day. Boating enthusiasts of all kinds live in the Charleston area and several of my clients are sailing enthusiasts which is one of the primary reasons they were interested in moving to Charleston. And with all the…
What could be better than a day at the beach
Share Well, a week at the beach would be even better but if you could live the dream and spend the rest of your life at the beach, wouldn’t that be even better yet.
Fried green tomatoes [Lowcountry cuisine]
Share One of the reasons that Charleston is such a great “foodie” city is the abundance of fresh local produce that the local restaurants have access to. There are lots of farmers markets and produce stands offering the best of the Lowcountry and our Johns Island tomatoes are just about the best anywhere. Except of…
