charleston, south carolina

a few highlights from my trip this summer to Charleston, South Carolina: marshy landscape, i didn't see any alligators during my trip but this is where the supposed alligators live, me in the rice mill building at the middleton place plantation, south carolina has the best trees like this one called angel oak, mom waiting for her tea at the hopsewee plantation, resurrection ferns, lovely carriage ride in downtown charleston, tour of Georgetown historic district, one of the grander homes of historic downtown charleston, jim in his southern gentleman hat looking out towards fort sumter, lush gardens of middleton place plantation, textiles from the civil war exhibit at the charleston museum

sunday afternoon at moca

2 images of sculpture made out of airplane parts by nancy rubins outside of museum of contemporary art in downtown los angeles, blurry tina with blurry rothkos, lifted this image off the web similar to what we saw in the lynda benglis show which we were not allowed to photograph, frank gehry building across the street from the museum

south carolina food

i enjoyed my first experience of the south this month as i visited my mom and her husband jim in charleston, south carolina. it was 10 days of humidity, the most beautiful trees and southern architecture and lots of good hearty eating. i'll be posting more of the trip including our excursion to savannah, Georgia, but first things first: the food post.

starting at the top: open faced crab melt in Georgetown from Rice Paddy Restaurant, the best tea i've ever tasted came from Hopsewee plantation where we ordered a full tea service which turned out to be trays and trays of lovely hor d'oeuvres like these (my favorite is the one on the bottom, a gingersnap with a curry paste dusted with almonds), lunch at Blu Restaurant on Folly Beach where you can walk right off the deck of the restaurant to the sandy beach..i had a chicken ceaser wrap and sweet potato fries, peaches at an open air farmers market in Charleston, another course from the Hopsewee plantation tea service, bo rounds from bojangles- a hashbrown type southern fastfoodstuff, one of my favorite meals of the trip was the shrimp and grits i had at Middleton Place Plantation Restaurant.

huntington beach and a half million people

this week i went to the us open of surfing, a 9 day surfing/skateboarding/music event expecting 500,000 people.

linville camping