WARNING: For those of you who are suffering from cabin fever, these pictures may cause a niggling of Spring fever. Here it is February already and that means it is springtime in the south. We've been busy showing our friend Mary around Tybee Island and Savannah. We have spent time in Historic Savannah looking at some of the homes and going to the squares in the area. There's 15 total squares and they are all beautiful and unique.
Along with being beautiful, the historic homes are well kept. It's interesting to walk around and imagine about the history of them. Many of these homes look like single family homes and you have to wonder what the people who now live there do to afford such luxury. We won't be around for it, but they have a tour of homes every year much like the Heritage Hill tour in Grand Rapids. We would love to get inside a few of them.
The facing on these steps are covered with ivy. How would you like to see that on the honey do list? "Trim the steps". A lot of the houses also have the wrought iron fencing around them, many of it original and hand made.
We drove to South Carolina to the Boone Hall Plantation with Mary, Jacki and Larry. It has some of the original buildings still standing. The plantation house is not the original but was built by later owners. We saw a picture of the original house and it wasn't as near as fancy, but the tour guide said our perception of these plantation houses come from the movies. We were supposed to keep in mind that the owners of these plantations were farmers and didn't have the opulence we associate with plantations.
This is Jacki, who talked about life on the plantation and gave us some Gullah history. There is still Gullah cultures around South Carolina and we hope to go into one of the Gullah communities before we leave this area.
Here are some of the slave quarters that are still standing on Boone Hall Plantation. These homes were occupied by the slaves who worked in the house or who had some special skill such as blacksmiths or carpenters. The field hands lived in wood houses closer to the fields.
These pictures were taken next to a branch of a Live Oak tree on the grounds of the plantation. The live oak trees are huge and if the branches grow close to the ground, you might think they were a log laying there, but they are alive and well. Many of the live oaks here and in the Savannah area are very old; many over a hundred years. That's Holly, Jacki and Mary on the left and of course, Holly and me in the picture above.
This is a fountain in Forsythe Park, one of the squares in Savannah. We had gone there to walk around and found this beautiful fountain and a farmers' market. The picture below was taken at Clary's Cafe where we dined outside for lunch. (I did start with a warning). For those who have read "Midnight in the Garden Of Good and Evil" you will remember Clary's Cafe as the place where Luther Diggers always had breakfast (or not) while plotting how to poison the water supply of Savannah. It is a popular place for the locals and the food was good!
I said last month that I would tell everyone about our next job. We have accepted a position in Northern California in Quincy. It's at Pioneer RV Park which has 62 sites. We will be working three days a week and three to four hours per day. I know it's a rough job but someone needs to do it. Quincy is an old gold mining area so maybe we can pan for gold on our off days and make our fortune. We will be there from June 1st to the end of October. Well, that's all for now; one more month and we'll be done here. We plan on being home the middle of April so PLEASE GET RID OF THE SNOW. Thank you and we'll see you all next time.
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