Official News

It is with mixed emotion I will be bidding adieu to Charleston on April 23rd. We officailly have a contract on our house as long as nothing unforseen occurs. The scariest part is not having a home to move into out there yet. I will be going out Aril 6 to give house hunting another go. I am sad to leave all the great friends and family that I have here. And I have just recently met several new friends but hope to be able to continue those newly formed friendships from across the country. I truely hope many of you will feel welcome enough to come out to visit us. I especially hope that some of my photography friends will come out to do some shooting excursions.
We have been very blessed to sell our house so quickly in this market. And that was our 3rd offer in two months!
I worked downtown at one of the galleries yesterday, which I so enjoy. But afterwards I took my camera on that cold and windy afternoon to the old bridge (to Sullivan's Island in the village), which is one of my favorite spots in Charleston and shot some photos that I will share here.

My Tuesday

My Tuesday was a good one. I accomplished a good bit of personal business in the morning then was greeted by the smiling face of my 3 year old great nephew, Greyson. It is so nice to have some little body so glad to see you and the unconditional, unspoiled love of a child. He lives in Georgia so it is so special every time I have the opportunity to spend time with him. He came as a special treat to come to Charleston with his dad all alone. His dad (my nephew) is here to do the special effects at Seacoast Church for their annual passion play at Easter, The Thorn. It is an awesome and moving show. Greyson and I went to my neighborhood play park and had a grand time swinging, see-sawing, and sliding! When I returned to my car I had a message from my friend Debbie reminding me to me her in North Charleston to eat before our concert. Well, thank goodness she called with a reminder message because I thought our show was TONIGHT!!! So I had to take Greyson along for the eating part until my sister could pick him up from me. (Thanks to my friends for not minding that I had to do that!)
The show we went to see is a Mexican duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela. They were the most awesome acoustic guitarist! They play rhythemic guitars with a bit of folk rock and latin rock. Gabriela stole the show with her hand moving beyond eye following speeds and playing almost all of the guitar, not just the strings, to produce rhythemic percussion. And the crowd was quite eclectic and attracted people of all ages. Take a listen to them if you can.
And when I talked to Tom after the show he was already in bed! It was 7:40PM there! I think the new job is really taking it out of him. You would think the time difference would make it hard for us to talk in the evenings because of me going to bed but it is actually the opposite. Tom is always going to bed about the time I am settling down! Well, such is our new life...

Toms Pictures

The sunset photo is from the road in front of his apartment. The mountain views are from houses and yards he looked at for us this weekend and the ponies were just because they were so cute!

Saturday in different time zones!

So Tom and I are still living in EST vs. MST. The worse new is that we in SC are changing to daylight savings time while he, in Arizona, is not changing to daylight savings time. Now our struggle to live in a two hour time difference will change to THREE hours!

Tom has every other Friday off (nice!). So yesterday he went house hunting for us yet again. He found a couple of houses he really liked that are older but a bit past our upper end of our price range. I will post some photos from his hunting tomorrow. Today he went to one of the municipal golf courses there. He said that for a "muni course" it was awesome! That's the second one he has played. Weather was sunny and in the low 70's. Perfect!

Here in Charleston I met up with a new photographer friend, Deanie. She and I met up and went to Folly Beach to go to a craft show. We first had lunch a little place called Taco Boy. It was very eclectic cool and was very crowded as the area was having a St. Patty's Day pub crawl. My food was very good. I had a shrimp tempura taco, black beans, and a japaleno cole slaw. I recommend it if you are out that way. And check out the bathrooms which are unisex. Then we went to the Tides of March craft show where I ran into lots of people I had not seen in a while. That was a

really nice treat! And I was spurred on to go by an e-mail of another new photographer friend I had met one day while working at Charleston Crafts. Laura is from Indiana and has a condo here and comes to Charleston when she can. She had a booth and I had the opportunity to see her beautiful work. I appreciate her letting me know about it so I could have this very nice day (although a bit chilly from the wind) seeing so many people today. And Deanie and I got to spend some extra time shooting a few photos together.

Thanks to all who helped me have a nice day when I am missing my hubby on the weekends!

Magnolia Gardens

Our days have begun to be more Charleston like. Warmer temperatures and sunshine and flowers and trees beginning to bud. So I took the day "off" yesterday to meet my friend Debbie at Magnolia Gardens. I truely had a "Murphy's law" day including dropping my good camera and messing up the lens but still enjoyed the glory of the day. Magnolia Plantation and Gardens are my favorite here in Charleston. Debbie and I walked the area for about 2 wonderful hours. The pictures I am sharing were taken with my point and shoot but seem to have come out nicely just the same. I am sharing photos of herons, ibises, a Coopers Hawk that we came upon and a golden pheasant that is with the small zoo they have there.

And Tom was in cloudy, cool Arizona going to open houses. (Sorry Tom!)

Snow in Hendersonville!

I have not even had a minute to post anything since the last time. We have all been working on getting my mom moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina. She will now be living there year round rather than here in Mount Pleasant and up there. (I miss her already!) We all worked endlessly getting her up there and trying to combine two houses into one. The job is still not complete. She still has a LOT of boxes to go. I was supposed to return to Charleston on Wednesday but felt I could not leave my mom with so much to do. I still felt bad leaving her yesterday with so much work ahead. Our very wonderful treat for my sister Dianne and I was that we got this very beautiful 7 inches of snow while we were there. We went out to run errands and could not resist taking a bit of a break to take some photos around Hendersonville. We were giddy with excitement and felt this was our reward from God! So I am sharing some photos from around Hendersonville as well as my mom's house and her back yard in the snow. Enjoy...with a little shiver from the cold!