by Alice Liles | Dec 15, 2015 | Bright Lights
I was invited to attend Muleshoe’s Trinity Church’s Christmas in the Country concert on December 3rd, and I am so glad I went. For the past 16 years this concert has become a Christmas tradition at the church, a way to celebrate the coming of Christ and raise money...
by Alice Liles | Dec 11, 2015 | Bright Lights
Mount Pleasant is east of Charleston across the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge. The former John P. Grace Memorial Bridge built in 1929 across the Cooper River had become insufficient for traffic and in need of major repair and was replaced in 2005 and renamed for South...
by Alice Liles | Dec 7, 2015 | Bright Lights
Today we struck out for Cypress Gardens, a short 24 miles from town. The swamp garden was created where Dean Hall rice plantation once existed. Where the other plantations we visited were covered with oak trees, this garden was, as its name implied, water and...
by Alice Liles | Nov 30, 2015 | Bright Lights
Our first stop was Middleton Place, a short drive from downtown. According to the Fodor’s Travel book on Charleston, Middleton Place is America’s oldest landscaped gardens, having been planted in 1741. I will have to admit I was expecting the house to be more on the...
by Alice Liles | Nov 24, 2015 | Bright Lights
It was time for good friend Elaine and I to take our annual road trip. Well, sort of annual; we fit in a trip when we can so that the last time we see each other won’t be at one of our funerals. The destination this past summer was Charleston, South Carolina. We met...
by Alice Liles | Nov 16, 2015 | Bright Lights
We lost Sophie the other day. She had been a part of our family since 2002, an even-tempered, soft-spoken, really sweet cat with a short tail and a coat of silky long hair that in some places was at least three inches long, maybe four! Sophie came to live with us...
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