Colorful wheels

Bikes, Vendue Range, Charleston, SC   

I expect these are rental bikes available for use for the hotel guests. The Charleston County Library has a wonderful history of Vendue Range on the Charleston Time Machine. I enjoyed this bit:

This ground at the east end of Queen Street was originally a tidal mudflat, however, and had been filled with trash and hundreds of cords of wood in a series of efforts between the early 1770s and 1809.  So was the first effort to pave Vendue Range around the year 1820 successful?  Such details are hard to find, so we’ll have to take the word of a correspondent who called himself simply “a Sailor” when he wrote the following brief communication to the Charleston Courier on 9 October 1829: 

“If any man wants a pair of broken shins, I would advise him to walk down the North side of Vendue Range, on a dark night—and if he don’t get a pair, I will agree to break them for him for nothing.”

Rub a dub, dub...

Broad St., Charleston, SC    

Rub a dub, dub. This is a decent size tree in a tub.

I like that I spotted the scene on Broad St.

I have so much free time in the evening. I keep waiting for it to cool down so I can go for my walk and it never does.

Summertime

Charleston piazza, Charleston, SC   

Beach towels hanging over porches say summertime to me. The colleges might be on break but that is a good number of bicycles. It looks like some good times happen here. 

Bicycle storage

Bicycle Storage, D'Allesandro's Pizza, Charleston, SC  

We don't have room for another bike. Or maybe we do! 

D'Allesandro's Pizza

It’s been said, you shouldn’t neglect family for business. We figured, why not have both? 

Everyone at D’Allesandro’s is considered part of the “family.” Some of them are brothers. 

Some of them are eccentric uncles. Everyone plays an equal part, and they’re all family.

Reflections

Reflections, King St., Charleston, SC  

As I waited to take pictures of the parade this weekend, I entertained myself with the reflection of a bright yellow bicycle in the honey shop. Coolness abounds. 

A recently opened fun shop on King St. is Lulu Burgess. They have had a store in Beaufort for years that I always tried to stop in so I was tickled to see a branch in Charleston. They have happy trinkets and toys as well as some jewelry and clothing. It is the clever toys and gadgets that delight my inner child. Who doesn't need hand finger puppets and super hero outfits for your fingers? I clearly did. 

It's a green time of year

King St., Charleston, S.C.

Even the skull bikes are turning green in preparation for St. Patrick's Day in the JLINSNIDER window display.