Where We Live

The other day, James and I went out with the kids and took some pictures of the part of town where we live. It is called San Souci ("care free") and it is a part of Greenville, SC near downtown. There is a big, new-ish strip mall that is the main focal point of the area, but I omitted it from the pictures, because -well, you probably have one just like it up the street anyway. Here are some local places that we see every day.

"ECHOLS" I don't know what it means, but those enormous green things spell home.

Random graffiti.

I love this sign and their old frilly garland!

I live in Dixie and here's proof!

Cherry Motors. That's all I have to say about that. 

This place has some awesome stuff and definite creep factor...

Life Without Television?

I love the name Evette. And I love to imagine the woman who ran and/or runs this used car lot...

Did you notice the Kudzu in those first two pictures? It is everywhere. I tried to keep it out of my pictures, but you can't control it. We tell ourselves that we've learned to co-exist, but inside each Southerner is the dreadful knowledge that someday the Kudzu will have the upper hand. It is slowly eating away at our landscape and we simply cannot win.