Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Sentinel

A red-shouldered hawk watching over workers in the field.

Freewoods Farm

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Freewoods Farm

Freewoods Farm is a 40-acre living farm museum replicating life on small southern family farms owned and/or operated by African Americans between 1865-1900.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Resurrection Fern

The odd-looking carpet plant growing on many of the live oaks in Conway has a scientific name of Polypodium polypodioides or "many footed". In dry weather it is brown and dead looking, but within an hour after a shower, the shriveled fronds open out into vibrant green leaves. This death to life cycle explains the plant's common name "Resurection Fern".

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Two Live Oaks

Two famous live oaks in front of the Horry County Museum in Conway, SC. Like many of the old oaks in Conway they have names (The Wade Hampton Oak in the background and Mary Beaty oak in the foreground).

Friday, February 23, 2007

Train Depot

The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Depot in Conway,SC was built in 1928. The building is a long, rectangular, one-story, gable-roofed, frame board-and-batten building constructed in a craftsman-influenced style. It now used as an office for the Carolina Southern Railroad.


Portions of the 1996 film Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden, starring Mary Tyler Moore, were filmed on location at the Conway railroad depot.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Daffodils

"If one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures,
then one is too few. " - William Wordsworth