The Boss comes to Charleston

August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Bruce springsteenBruce Springsteen will be in Charleston Saturday night playing to a sold out crowd at the North Charleston Coliseum. Tickets sold out in nanoseconds for what will likely be the concert of the year in Charleston.

I noticed some positives with ticket resales, additional proceeds being donated to charity. And some businesses are using the highly coveted tickets to thank their best clients.

It should be a great show.

Photo courtesy of flickr by Alex Hempton-Smith.

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August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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August 8 2008

8.8.2008

This is a fascinating day for numerology and I just noticed and wanted to share this fascinating article by Christine Delorey, The Power of 8.

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Friday flowers

July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Daisies

These are just some daisies we planted and they’re cute and all but there was another reason for planting them and a lesson for all homebuyers.

You see, my next door neighbor just doesn’t seem to have a clue where her property ends and mine begins and of course, she runs her lawnmower well onto my grass and if that isn’t bad enough, she doesn’t bother to clean up after mowing.

So after repeated attempts to nicely ask her to stop, my only solution was to plant the daisies at the property corner with a cute little mini picket fence in order to get her to stop at the property line.

The lesson, you can pick your neighborhood (and we love our neighborhood and most of our neighbors) but you can’t necessarily pick your neighbor.

 And I can always hope that one day she’ll move.

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Friday flowers

July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Lily

A beautiful lily from our garden. For information on many more exotic lilies available, click here for The Lily Garden.

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Friday flowers

July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Don’t these knock out roses knock you out.

Knock out roses

Knoc kout rose 

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What stacation

June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

All the talk in the media has been about how Americans are struggling with $4 gas and rather than take vacations, they will stay at home and take a newly invented word called a “stacation” instead.

We went to the beach for the week, the 4th of July always seems to be the best time to go away to rest and relax and anecdotal evidence points otherwise. The beach is crowded, there are the usual fights in the grocery store as if the store will run out of milk, eggs and other essentials for a week’s stay and our favorite pizza place was jam packed last evening.

After all, it’s time to get out on the sand.

At the beach

 

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Friday flowers

June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Moss roses

Last year, we bought these flowers and just called them the “cute little flowers” and we enjoyed them so much we wanted to make sure we found them again this year.

Now we know their name, they are moss roses.

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Friday flowers

June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Crepes in bloom

Back in April, I wrote about the first buds on my crepe myrtles and promised to show you how they would look this summer. Amazing!

I remember when I first saw crepe myrtles in bloom when I was coming home to the Charlotte airport and they line the parkway, when I left town on a business trip, no color, upon my arrival, like I said before, amazing.

I also remember at Epcot at Disney World seeing a gigantic crepe myrtle and there was a plaque describing the tree and the summer blooms.

There is no doubt, if you live in the South, the crepe myrtle is one of the most beautiful trees for everyone’s summer garden.

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Father’s Day and golf

June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Father’s Day has always been about The U.S. Open Golf Tournament for me. My father loved golf and when I was young, the tournament was always played during the Chicago Furniture Show and my dad always had a television tuned to the Open during the show and we would always go downtown to the mart and watch golf and then go out to dinner.

Jack NicklausHere is a great story from ESPN Magazine by Wright Thompson about Jack Nicklaus. Please read Father Bear.

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Friday Flowers

June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

gardenias in bloomThe beautiful white flowers of a gardenia. The white is so pure that it makes me think of a wedding. June has always been the most popular month for weddings. Charleston of course is one of the most romantic cities in the country and many couples celebrate their wedding here.  

Why are so many weddings held in June? Check this out from the Wedding Blog.

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