By Michael Kaynard, contributing photographer | Our impression of the area and the people was very positive. We found the Amish and Mennonites we met to be hard-working and very nice people. We would enjoy returning there again.
As a matter of fact, we thought southern Pennsylvania was very pretty and lush. I would suggest that travelers get off the interstate and main roads and see the real America.
The only hint about this week’s mystery by contributing photographer Michael Kaynard is that is somewhere on the Charleston peninsula. Recognize it? Send your best guess of where it is to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
Flowers dance beneath this globe sculpture in a photograph taken four years ago by contributing photographer Michael Kaynard. Where is it? Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
YOU MAY NOT see fog like this until it gets a little cooler, but hard as it may be to believe, it will cool off soon. Early in the morning, it is almost as if you can smell fall tip-toeing toward Charleston. Then, of course, the blast furnace opens and the heat index rises above 100 degrees. Contributing photographer Michael Kaynard snapped this shot in January 2013 along the Wappoo Cut.
This fountain and lush greenery are in Charleston. But where did contributing photographer Michael Kaynard snap this photo? Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
Don’t you just love this pig-themed watering can? Contributing photographer Michael Kaynard spied it in a recent walk around Hampton Park Terrace in Charleston. The neighborhood, which abuts historic Hampton Park, includes 303 historic homes that are about 100 years old. Most of the homes in the neighborhood of 1,000 people were built between 1914 and 1922.
Hint: This tranquil scene may not be in Charleston County. Third person who is correct in identifying the general location of this photo will get a pair of RiverDogs tickets. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
Contributing photographer Michael Kaynard says he’s worried about a young child wandering around without a shoe. Where did he take this photo of a lost shoe. (This one should be pretty easy.) Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
You may have seen the word “guida” on the side of a building somewhere in Charleston County, but where? Contributing photographer Michael Kaynard of Kaynard Photography sent along this perplexing image. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live. First to guess correctly gets a pair of RiverDogs’ ticket vouchers.
If you’ve been a longtime reader of Charleston Currents, you’ve seen this incline from Magnolia Plantation and Gardens before. In the past, though, contributing photographer Michael Kaynard snapped photos of alligators or turtles — or both — sunning in a swampy area around the attraction. This time, he found a duck and her seven — or eight — ducklings. How many do you see?
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