Share The Battery is both a defensive seawall and a walking promenade and is today most famous for the stately historic homes that line it. The High Battery along East Bay Street is highest part of the Battery. Possibly the most famous home in Charleston on the High Battery is the Edmondston – Alston House which…
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Pictures of Charleston [Friday Photos] Colors of early spring
Share I realize that it’s still several weeks until spring but because we enjoyed a very mild winter in Charleston plus spring usually begins in late February to early March anyway, the colors of early spring are especially beautiful this year. Azaleas are blooming all around the Charleston area! From our garden, the thin ribbon like flowers of…
Pictures of Charleston [Friday Photos] Charming Summerville
Share Summerville is quite simply a charming town founded in the 1700′s by wealthy Charlestonians seeking respite from the summer heat of the city. In the late 1800”s Summerville flourished with many inns serving travelers from around the world. And that brings us to today where you’ll find a blend of old time Southern charm…
Pictures of Charleston [Friday Photos] What makes Charleston special
Share There are very few cities in the country like Charleston. If you’ve traveled, you may have visited places that seem to remind you of other places and sometimes there isn’t all that much that’s special to differentiate it from other cities. (Of course, that’s especially true in the suburbs almost everyplace these days.) But that’s…
Pictures of Charleston [Friday Photos] Charleston gardens
Share Many homes in Charleston are famous for their private gardens. Noted landscape architects including Sheila Wertimer and Robert Chesnut call Charleston home and their work can be found throughout the city. The Calhoun Mansion is one of the most beautiful private homes in the Historic District of Charleston and it is also open to the public…
Pictures of Charleston [Friday Photos] Charleston, The Holy City
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,…
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…
