The beauty of South Carolina is breath taking. It always strikes me as odd that this was one of the 1st colonies of the country, and yet it is nearly all undeveloped. Forests abound everywhere. It is a state of small towns, most of them having an ice cream place, a pizza parlor, and maybe a few others stores, plus all claiming a “historic downtown area”. Across the street from our house I have seen a group of 5 deer running together. Seeing a deer cross the road is now almost commonplace. I never saw a deer until about 5 years ago, but down here they are common.
The pines are everywhere. Driving from one town to another is to pass acres and acres of untouched pines and forest. Flowering trees start in Feb./March. There are now apples turning red on the trees in our front yard, and it is mid-June. At a farmer’s market we were told they would have corn starting next week! In Indiana we always had a saying for growing corn: “Knee-high by the 4th of July”. Here, it is done and grown and being sold by the end of June.
Doctor Grandma 
July 5, 2009 at 4:44 pm |
Good grief, Carol! How can you have never seen a deer until 5 years ago. I guess West Lafayette is just hostile territory for them. We have them in our backyardall the time. They eat plants under our bedroom windows. The salad bar. We also routinely have racoons, rabbits (there are alot this year), chipmunks, squirrels (fairly recent), moles, voles, turkeys and the big additon this year…… skunks. Thankfully, the cats don’t seem interested in messing with them. They do get rabbits though.
July 8, 2009 at 5:20 pm |
hey Judy,
I’m a city girl. My mother did not garden or can (or sew). I always hated home ec because I was the clutz.
Yeah, the 1st time I saw a deer was leaving Camp Cary!