A big thing in Charleston–and to some degree the rest of the state–is shirts and bumper stickers with the state flag’s palmetto tree and crescent moon.

It’s a nice symbol to me, growing up here.  A while back I noticed it showed up in a pretty wild place–the local Band of Horses used an abstractly hidden version on the cover of “Cease to Begin”–

I don’t really care for the typical blue & white/Clemson orange/USC burgundy versions available,  so I made my own, inspired by the fantastic pattern from this photograph of Calvin Harris:

And thus arose my design, starring on a brown shirt near me soon:

Saw this sign in North Charleston near the outlet stores.  It pointed towards a dead end.

I found the set of photographs from this short audio slideshow from The State paper extraordinary.

Charleston is an extremely photogenic city.  Here are a few pictures I took on a recent, very sunny day downtown.  Fort Sumter, where the Civil War started, is visible in the harbor shot with the sailboat.