Travelers Rest...Home Sweet Home

Travelers Rest is my home. I have lived here virtually my whole life. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Like everything in the Upstate, TR is growing. It has certainly come a long way since the early 1800's when travelers first started resting in this place on their way to and from Kentucky and Tennessee.

Check out the City Of Travelers Rest website for more interesting history, photos, as well as information about the Swamp Rabbit Trail.

Dianthus...Oh Why I Love You.

I love my dianthus. I love the blooms. I love it's smoky blue foliage. I love it because it's blooms are complementary to the Japanese Maple's leaves to which it's planted under.

I think I love it most because it's a perennial! It took me a long time to learn that while annuals are nice, perennials are the only way to grow your garden!

Nest Egg

Nest Eggs

Birds all the summer day
Flutter and quarrel
Here in the arbour-like
Tent of the laurel.

Here in the fork
The brown nest is seated;
For little blue eggs
The mother keeps heated.

While we stand watching her
Staring like gabies,
Safe in each egg are the
Bird's little babies.

Soon the frail eggs they shall
Chip, and upspringing
Make all the April woods
Merry with singing.

Younger than we are,
O children, and frailer,
Soon in the blue air they'll be,
Singer and sailor.

We, so much older,
Taller and stronger,
We shall look down on the
Birdies no longer.

They shall go flying
With musical speeches
High overhead in the
Tops of the beeches.

In spite of our wisdom
And sensible talking,
We on our feet must go
Plodding and walking.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A Hummingbird's Favorite

This Columbine plant came up from seed. It was in a flower bed that we are redoing, until last week when I dug it up. I transplanted it in this pot for the time being.

Columbine is a a perennial and it's a favorite of hummingbirds because it contains a lot of nectar. I believe this particular Columbine blooms purple.

Violators Will Be Prosecuted!

I kinda-sorta trespassed yesterday. I'm a wanted criminal. I'm sure my photo is posted all over the Post Office wall by now and I'll probably be on Sunday night's America's Most Wanted.

BUT...this photo is super cool, huh?

Duck, Duck, GOOSE!

Two geese showed up in the parking lot next door to my work this week. Yesterday, I went to take their photo and could only find this one. I wish they would find a better home than on busy Wade Hampton Boulevard.

I called Wildlife Rehab of Greenville . They said unless they were injured, they couldn't do anything for them. I felt for sure they'd relocate them. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for them.

Tulip Song

A tulip blooms in the morn

It's petals soft as cotton

It's beauty cannot be denied

It's elegance not forgotten