I am lost in a maze of photo files....

But,...it's fun...

I love re-living the experience of our trip to

Brookgreen Gardens...

If you have the opportunity to go...

do it.

The gardens are made up of 4 former rice plantations,

bought and saved by a couple in the early part of the twentieth century.

The wrought iron is everywhere....

The lush gardens have been manicured in a most natural way...

Some areas of the gardens are more formal..and arranged...

Others are quite wild....

The day that we visited for the first time,

was overcast, grey, and a bit cool...

The weather made photography interesting...

One might think it would leave things flat..

it could have...

but a little manipulation..and

wah-lah!

an image that I really love....

I love that!

When I first cradled a camera,

many years ago...

the technology was such that your manipulation

took place at the time of focusing.
Now I can think about what I want to do with my image

while it is uploading to my computer...

Over the weekend

I am taking the time for myself...

so that I can smell the swamp water...

hear those cranes, egrets and
eagles...

feel the splatter of the water from the fountains...

Ah...

fall in the south...

smiles.