Waiting for Christmas

Boon Hall Plantation in Charleston, SC

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge



Hi my friends,

Are you ready for Christmas? Is everything done, all the gifts wrapped in beautiful paper and all the cookies baked? Yes....? Then you can sit down, relax and enjoy the time until your family members will arrive and you'll hug them since long time again.

I wish you to have the real spirit for Christmas!
Susanne



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It's Christmas Day

Christmas Deco in Charleston

Happy, happy Christmas,

that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days;
that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth;
that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!

~ Charles Dickens ~ The Pickwick Papers, 1836

The Boone Hall Plantation #1

Boone Hall Plantation house

The beautiful entrance and the big, inviting porch of the house

The left wing of the house

The right wing of the house and all the pretty Christmas decorations in the windows

A inviting porch to stay and to enjoy the charming lifestyle of the South

This is the most beautiful Christmas deco I ever have seen!

Slave cabins

View trough the gates back to the "Avenue of Oaks"

The Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens

is an antebellum cotton plantation located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina near Charleston, South Carolina and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The plantation includes a large post-civil war farmhouse, a number of original slave cabins (which were occupied by sharecroppers well into the 20th century), several flowering gardens, and the historic "Avenue of Oaks": a mile drive up the house with live oaks on either side. It sits on Wampacheeoone Creek in the Christ Church parish about 10 miles from historic downtown Charleston.

The earliest known existence of the ground is 1681. It originated from a land grant given to Major John Boone. The land grant of 470 acres was given by Theophilus Patey as a wedding present to his daughter, Elizabeth and Boone. The original wooden house was constructed in 1790. The house that stands now was built by Thomas Stone, a Canadian who purchased the land in the early 20th century. He wanted a "grander style" home than what was there, so he built the Colonial Revival-style house that stands there today. However, the bricks in the house were taken from the Horlbeck brickyard.

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Christmas Spirit in Charleston

In Down Town Charleston stays a magnificent big Christmas tree

Beautiful Christmas decorations everywhere you go

And the gifts are ready - outside of the store

My favorite of all Christmas trees I have seen yesterday was here in a Irish Pub

David and I went for a little stroll to catch the Christmas spirit in Down Town of Charleston. I found a lot of pretty and very tastefully decorated stores, coffee shops and buildings. I love to see all the magic of Christmas!

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