Ida

Ida fencepost sitting in front of Jack Jasper’s house, Rosni Farm, Madison County, Virginia

Barnes Lumber

south of csx trx between Franklin and Carlton
Once upon a time there were mechanical-industrial enterprises nearby. There are still industrial-scale enterprises close at hand, but they are engaged with code, brewing beer, warehousing people + lay-down storage of building supplies and Chinese manufactured solar stuff.

Cane

At dawn (but no sunrise, overcast) walked across the Beaufort Bridge, ran into the bridgekeeper. He says he grew up where waterfront park is located, always wanted to operate the bridge. The man got his wish.

February 2004 I visited Megan, Percy, Fredericka, Bella and Kathy Ravenel. We went to a nursery on Edisto. I bought a quercus virginiana.

I planted the live oak at Slabtown. This fall, nineteen years later, it made acorns.

Kathy Ravenel, Fred Alexander