North to South Carolina Road Trip

OK - this week ahead will be a whirlwind - here I am back from a weekend road trip/wedding and now preparing for my trip home to England in one week. Lots to show you, lots to do, please bear with me as I post all these pics now - time will be at a premium.

A side trip to Florence, South Carolina on the way to the wedding, took us to the Pee Dee Farmers' Market..........................and there they were, the elusive white pumpkins, my search was over! I found some beauties and a gorgeous pale green one - the only one remaining.

Mexican chimineas and wrought iron furniture.

Fountains, statues, benches - all lovely. No pick up truck, no take home!!

Great veggies such as organic garlic, white radishes, pale green zucchini (courgettes to you European gals) and patty pan squash.

Driving home along the back roads we noticed how the terrible drought has affected the crops. Tobacco has suffered (not that I'm shedding tears over that one), but the soybeans and cotton looked parched, the corn was already ploughed under, and even the pumpkin crop has been damaged this season.

Below is a cotton field awaiting harvest - this crop is making a come back in North Carolina.

A beautiful plantation style antebellum mansion which now seems to be a farm house as it was surrounded by barns and outbuildings.

The imposing historic market place in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Above you can see my lonely green pumpkin waiting to be taken home - below a real white one front left, and the green one. The white twig 'sculpture', already a bit shabby, I found at SuzAnna'sMore postcards from the road soon.