The picture above is in Charleston, but where? It’s an odd perspective. Perhaps the painting offers a clue. Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Dec. 16 mystery, “Warm, afternoon light,” showed the glow of Grace Church Cathedral on Wentworth Street in the waning light of a recent chilly Charleston day.
By Cynthia Bledsoe, special to Charleston Currents | We traveled from Vienna to Melk and Linz, Austria and then into Germany, stopping in Passau, Regensburg and Nuremberg. Each town was decorated with different lights and festive Christmas decorations and the markets were filled to the brim with food, ornaments and lovingly hand-crafted goods.
You can feel the warmth on this building on a cool fall day as the sun started to set. But what and where is it? [Several photos lately have been hard, so here’s a holiday “gimme!”] Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Dec. 9 mystery, “An old place,” is the Old Sheldon Church ruins near Yemassee. If you look closely, you’ll see a new look with manicured rock paths, even though they are blocked these days by a fence that surrounds the historic church.
Where and what is it? Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Dec. 2 mystery, “Lowcountry dawn,” turned out to be harder than we anticipated. The Charleston photo is taken from a parking lot at the Marina Variety Store on Lockwood Boulevard looking toward construction of the new Sergeant Jasper complex on Broad Street.
By Rob Byko, contributing photographer | Approaching Magnolia Plantation at night through the gates along a winding drive, you can tell you’re in for a treat. Over the treetops and through the underbrush, you see your first glimpse of the brilliant lights in colors too numerous to mention.
Entering the festival grounds, the evening explodes in color and sound. The lights’ reflections wash over joyful faces of patrons walking the garden paths. The light dances along ponds and through the eyes of children who seem lost in the fantasy.
An easy walking trail guides you first along a fairy tale of characters, followed by flowers and fauna taller than your head. Then you meet huge butterflies and ladybugs, pandas and peacocks. Turn a corner and you find a kaleidoscope from the animal kingdom featuring playful lions, stoic zebras and tigers so vivid they seem real.
Finally, the tour returns to fantasy, placing you face-to-face with a 200-foot-long dragon whose majestic head soars more than 45 feet in the air. …
Try to figure out where the photographer stood when taking this photo of a sunrise in Charleston. Alternatively, what’s the photographer looking at through the lens? Extra credit: Answer both. Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Nov. 25 mystery, “Interesting brick building,” has been known as the Waring Historical Library since 1969.
Here’s an interesting brick building in Charleston County. What and where is it? Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Nov. 18 mystery, “Not a house in a subdivision,” was of Oakland plantation house, which is about seven miles east of Mount Pleasant. Congratulations to three readers who correctly identified i
Here’s what this week’s mystery is not: A standard South Carolina subdivision house. But what and where is it? Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Nov. 11 mystery, “This puzzler might be impossible,” wasn’t impossible for one guy: Super sleuth George Graf of Palmyra, Va. Learn more.
The Mystery Photo for this issue might test the outer boundaries of your sleuthing skills. Hint” It is in Charleston. Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Nov. 4 mystery, “Under construction” showed the new Charleston fire station being built on Savannah Highway a few blocks inside the Interstate 526 interchange.
Just where in the Charleston area might you have seen this building? For those of you who use Google images to try to scout this new building, good luck! Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Oct. 28 mystery, “Great flower boxes” showed the exterior of Rodney Scott’s barbecue joint on upper King Street in Charleston. Just looking at the building makes one’s mouth water for Scott’s tasty pork sandwiches.
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