Charleston #2:

Today's ramble is brought to you by the smells of jasmine & the sea. (As you may recall, I get all sensitive / maudlin about smells when I'm someplace new.) Anyway, today (actually -last Friday) was about the west side of the Charleston peninsula. (Did I mention that my previous was the east side? The French Quarter? This is more the merchant class -as distinct from the older richer planter class. Nice architecture both sides, but one a little more compact and less opulent.)
But I do go on.

While waiting for the buss to takeme to C'town propper. More picturesk thenyou might think. This is off the sideof a roat that might be equivalent to Parker road w/. a little Colorado BOulaivardstrredin. Salt slough, livwe oaks, and Spanichmoss off in the distance.

MUSC the Medical Universityof South Calorlina.

Purple stuff for Veronica. (Got to do a little purple stuff ever' trip.)

This is a city park / wet-land.

The 4 previous are all taken from the middle of an intersection -to give you a feeling of the neighborhood.

An few prety houses. We are not quite to the high-rent destrict, pretty nice ust the same.

An ugly partment building facing Battery park.

The water front across off Battery Park.

Assorted cannons -'cause one can never have too many pix of cannons.

(And they are big on cannons here abouts.)

Cannons and statues dedicated to the sons of the Confederacy.

This is a memorial to Moultree. Mel Gibson's character in The Patriot. Good movie!

Insipid pix of a rich dead guys' pilazza. The waterfront is to the left.

Better pix of the pilazza thing. (Remember -property taxes were basedon the #$ od windows facing the street.)

You see lots of of tiny houses stuck in behind big houses. Like carrage houses -but not.

Now from there, I got tired of beautifull old houses and went Northon King street. Kingis the touristy shopping street and I found an Urban Outfitters store in a partially re-worked old theatre. Lovethiskind'a of urban re-purposinng.