Christmas in North Carolina

We spend Christmas visiting family in North Carolina

Flying over the midwest - each little square of land has a building on it.At the greenway close to my mom's house


Walking around the neighborhood I used to live in - Olde Providence. Many houses have swings in front.Kenny and Ben


Natascha and kidsConrad and Kenny - Conrad has his trebuchet


Ann made some Christmas treats, incluidng poppyseed cake


At Hemlock Bluffs Nature PreserveChristmas Eve


An interesting sculpted tree branch along the wayA walk to Macedonia Lake


Sylvia's birthday - homemade carrot cake!Peter with Rossi


At Galloway RidgeAt Fort Moultrie


Our AirBnB in Charleston. I was not impressed - not clean.


This is a bench on the front porch. Filthy.At the market - I didn't realize how long it was!


At the Waterfront Park in Charleston


The area just around there - basically the old town of Charleston - is very beautiful.People decorate their houses very nicely.


The grape myrtle root seems to not lift up sidewalks so much as ooze out of them cracks.


Interesting benchAt the Charles Towne Landing Historical Site. There was a reproduction of the old boats that were used to transport supplies


Kenny was really hoping to see alligators, but apparently they're hibernating.An orange tree with ripe oranges. Or - were they ripe? They were orange in color, but quite sour.