College campus walking

The Cistern, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 

Strolling through the College of Charleston campus is a pretty walk at any time of year. These photos are actually from last weekend. I have some catching up to do!

The big apple!

College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 

It took me awhile to realize it was carved as a map of the globe. The project was created to bring attention to global food security. #everyoneeats.

On the Prowl

College of Charleston, SC 

On the Prowl 

College of Charleston Cougars

Sculpted by John Michel

Professor of Studio Art 

Gift of the Class of 1996

Traveling manhole covers

College of Charleston campus, Charleston, SC  

I've had my eye on manhole and storm sewer covers lately, some decorative, some plain. I noticed that this one was made in India. That is a long way for a manhole cover to travel. After a photographer documented the process and factory the New York Times did an article on it and put factory safety measures in place. A picture can be worth a thousand words. 

Springing forward

College of Charleston, Charleston, SC   

Sunday night we turn the clocks forward and lose a precious hour of our weekends. I read a suggestion that the change time be moved to Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. Bingo - early out on a work day!

Fountain view for two

College of Charleston campus, Charleston, SC  

These two chairs caught my eye on a recent walk through the College of Charleston campus. It looks like someone pulled them up just to sit and enjoy the view. It is a gorgeous spot.

Have I mentioned how much I love Fridays? I do. I made it to Citadel Mall in time for A Walk in the Woods matinee. Apparently I like hiking movies almost as much as I enjoy walking because I go to them all. Sadly my step-counter didn't register any activity during the movie.

Don't fence me in

College of Charleston, Charleston, SC   

 Don't Fence Me In

1. Song by The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby
2. Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above

   Don't fence me in

   Let me ride through the wide open country that I love

   Don't fence me in

   Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze

   And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees

   Send me off forever but I ask you please

   Don't fence me in
3. UNLESS! Unless the fence is this pretty. 
4. In that case I might consider being fenced in. 

Andy, never tell a lie

Elizabeth Jackson, Charleston, SC   

Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson gave birth to future President Andrew Jackson while on a trip back from burying her dead husband. When Andrew was 14, she died from smallpox while caring for sick Revolutionary War soldiers aboard a British prison ship. No one knows exactly where she's buried but that it was a few miles north of Charleston. 

Jackson wrote: “I knew she died near Charleston, having visited that City with several matrons to afford relief to our prisoners with the British - not her son as you suppose, for at that time my two Elder brothers were no more; but two of her Nephews, William and Joseph Crawford Sons of James Crawford then deceased. I well recollect one of the matrons that went with her was Mrs. Boyd. It is possible Mrs. Barton can inform me where she was buried that I can find her grave. This to me would be great satisfaction, that I might collect her bones and inter them with that of my father and brothers.”

Robert Behr - Post & Courier: wrote an article a few years ago describing how this marker came to be placed on the College of Charleston campus. 

This marker was moved there in 1967 by well-intended folks who wanted to rescue it from its original location about 2 1/2 miles uptown. In 1942, several service members at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island responded to a newspaper's call to honor Mrs. Jackson. These men, who mostly hailed from Columbia, commissioned the marker and placed it in a railroad right of way - a sort of no man's land just east of King Street Extension and Heriot Street.

Boys, boys, boys

Charleston, SC  

See! There are men at the College of Charleston!

According to US News & World Report, the College of Charleston has a total undergraduate gender distribution of 37.7 percent male students and 62.3 percent female students. That wasn't obvious this morning as large groups of gentlemen students moved around the campus. There must have been some fraternity event in progress. 

The Holy City

Steeples, Charleston, SC 

Happy rainy Wednesday, kids! It's a dreary picture but it is a dreary day and raining this afternoon. I caught this scene with three church steeples from the window of the College of Charleston's Stern Center yesterday. Charleston's many steeples earned it the name Holy City.

Charleston - the Holy City: While the earliest settlers primarily came from England, they were followed by other immigrants including French, Scottish, Irish, Germans, and others. These many various ethnic groups brought with them numerous Protestant denominations, as well as Roman Catholicism and Judaism, which would later earn Charleston the nickname of the “Holy City,” for its long tolerance for religions of all types and its many historic churches.

We do indeed have a lot of churches and I hope I have taken pictures of almost all of them. They stand out even more noticeably because we have height restrictions for most construction on the peninsula. 

This green campus

College of Charleston campus, Charleston, S.C.

I am always happy to take a short cut through the College of Charleston campus. One quiet Sunday years ago I did this same walk and a security officer spotted me with my camera and let me wander through the Sottile House. It is beautiful with stained glass windows and dark wood paneling.

Can't stay long this evening because I got my three day alert that my downloaded book will disappear from my tablet. I forget about them until I get the warning and then read nonstop racing to beat the clock. Three day reader, that is me! I'd best not download any real long books. 

 

The boys are back in town

College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C.

To be more accurate, the girls are back in town but I happened to catch a shot of the gentlemen. Considering the ratio of males to females I am surprised the word doesn't get out and attract more men.

Student Life

College of Charleston has a total undergraduate enrollment of 10,506, with a gender distribution of 37.5 percent male students and 62.5 percent female students.

I have had to try to control comments again folks, sorry about that. For awhile I took off most controls but I was loaded up with spam comments to handle and I simply don't have time to control them all. I hate the little word to enter as much as everyone else but can't think of another way to take care of it. Feel free to join me on Facebook if you prefer.

I don't always rush, but when I do...

College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C.

I was finishing my walk yesterday by popping into Caviar & Bananas on George St. for their extra scrumptious Duck Confit sandwich when I heard such a roar of activity at the college cistern that I had to check it out.

I probably wasn't supposed to be there but couldn't resist spying for a few minutes on the fraternity pledge announcements. Wow! Each fraternity group wore identifying shirts. Someone with a megaphone walked out with each candidate and to announce what fraternity they now belonged to. There were shouts of excitement and as group rushed up to escort/carry their new member down the steps. Each group had loud celebratory sound effects and what I had heard were the engines of motorcycles roaring.

I believe the college year is now in session.

What a glorious day! Yesterday it was gray and raining as I walked and this morning I opened my windows and doors to the fresh cool air. We must get outside and enjoy this unusual August gift. 

Thank You Umbrella Girl!

College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C.

I was taking the short cut through the College of Charleston campus back home and this gal with an umbrella was kind enough to walk right into the perfect spot. Thank you!

Rainy day. It always seems to rain during the Southeastern Wildlife Exhibition but this year we happy to see it. I've been going through closets and piling old clothes into give-a-way bags. It is long past time to clean up around here.  I put an ad for five minutes on Craigslist and a lady my size is supposed to come by and pick them up off my porch.

I walked to Harris Teeter this morning and it seems to me the price of eggs has gone up. I'm talking Cadbury's of course. Yum.

What if books were just invented?

College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C.

I got a kick out of this entry from J-Walk Blog titled, What if Books were just Invented:

In this dimension, humans have had e-books for thousands of years. That's how we read. Then, all of a sudden, somebody invents an actual physical book. What would people be saying?

Do you mean you have to find a place in your house to store them all? We just don't have the space.
Yuk! Mice will be eating them!
It takes two hands to hold one. How can you read while you eat?
So when you're finished reading it, you can sell it to someone? Publishers won't like that idea!
How do they know how many to make? It's like they'd need to be psychic or something.
It just seems so… primitive!
You're saying that I have to carry around my entire library? No thanks.
They cut down trees for these things? Why?
You have to drive to a store to buy one of these? What if I want to read it right now?
I don't see any way to copy and paste.

Don't you wonder if books will gradually disappear and seem like novelties? I haven't gone kindle yet but then I'm not the bookwork I used to be.

Water Bottle Fountain

College of Charleston, Coming St., Charleston, S.C.

Why just have a water fountain when you can have a water bottle fountain?

Doesn't matter. Makes me smile.

College of Charleston Cistern, Charleston, SC

One of my favorite pastimes is looking at what search words people entered that landed them on my site. Sadly this is what folks they found when they looked for Brunch on King. A popular search seems to be for pictures of the College of Charleston so we'll feature one of those today. I could run the whole show by producing pictures of what people looked for but it would still be a day late. I want to run after them yelling, no! come back! I really do have what you were looking for!

Meanwhile, since I've gathered you together, I am going to share some of the nifty quotes that amplesanity finds to begin her entries.

"My mission is to kill time and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers." Emile M. Cioran

"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later." Mitch Hedberg

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." A. A. Milne

"Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work." Merlin Mann

"But what could one possibly do with that?" "Doesn't matter. Makes me smile."

College of Charleston

College of Charleston Campus, Charleston, SC

First day and already breaking the rules. Posting two pictures on a daily photo site. Testing, testing.

I've been wanting to join the City Daily Photo group for some time and will make my home here while Walk this Way is out of commission. Hopefully it will be up and running by week's end and this can be used just for Charleston photos. Meanwhile it will ease the blogging withdrawal pangs. Thanks to "R" the previous owner of Charleston Daily Photo who turned it over to me today. Picture me blowing kisses!