Mark's Photo Travels

When it comes to choosing where to go on my outings, I usually end up choosing the last thing that caught my interest before making a decision. And this time is no different. I happened to come across the website for Rock City Gardens , an attraction located on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga Tennessee. The page that interested me most was the one for their map of Rock City barns , barns much like the ones I remember seeing while traveling during summer vacations when I was little. Their map showed a barn located a few miles south of Abbeville. Earlier last week I found the time to visit this barn, and a few others old buildings along the way and back. My route took me down U.S. 25 to Hodges, down S.C. 185 and S.C. 203 to Abbeville, then S.C. 72 and S.C. 28 to the Bethel community where the Rock City Barn is located. I'll briefly as possible describe the stops I made along the way and back. Southern Greenville County About a mile south of Moonville at  7788 Augusta Road...

June is the start of the month long South Carolina Festival of Flowers in Greenwood County. What began as a celebration of gardening in 1968 has blossomed (sorry) into a month long series of events throughout Greenwood County. This year the Festival of Flowers celebrates its 50th anniversary , with special events planned to celebrate the occasion. The event that's always interested me the most is the tour of historic Cokesbury College   in Cokesbury , a community situated a few miles north of Greenwood. When I last went in 2013 with Tom Taylor and Allan Russel , the tour was held on a Saturday. Sometime in the last four years, the tour shifted to Sunday and an ice cream social is now part of the tour, but the antiques show I liked so much that took place in front of the building is no longer. Education has played a major role in Cokesbury's history. Cokesbury was founded in 1824 as Mount Ariel by members of the nearby Methodist community of Tabernacle. The citizens...