Florence City/County Pics

[Charles Pearson]

Florentine Boy-Files, Call Me

4/3/2021

 

"Roll me in designer sheets
I'll never get enough
Emotions come, I don't know why
Cover up love's alibi
Call me (In To Overtime)
-Blondie, CALL ME

Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke)

 

 

American Airlines CHARLOTTE to FLORENCE

"...any day or night"

 

 

 

Florence, "David"

4/3/2021

"Burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name
She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire
-Bananarama, VENUS

David's "Cut Green Beans" painted with a toothpick

 

Florence

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "Jesus of Nazareth"

4/6/2021

W. Waters Ave/Timrod Park

"Dominus Meus et Deus Meus
-Saint Thomas

S. Park Avenue

Beth Israel, S. Park Avenue

South Park Avenue

First Presbyterian Church, S. Park Avenue/Timrod Park

 

Book Exchange

South Park Avenue at West Palmetto Street

General Store

Old Coca-Cola Ice Box

 

Central Methodist Church, W. Cheves Street at S. Irby Street

Central Methodist Church

 

 

The Plaza
Dargan Street

 

 

 

South Coit Street

W. Cheves Street

Timrod Park

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "Wherefore"

4/8/2021

 

"How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty! The cares, and sorrows, and hungerings, of the world, change them as they change hearts . . .
-Charles Dickens, OLIVER TWIST

I can't tell you why-Eagles

 

 

 

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "Alone With Memories"

4/10/2021

"Alone With Memories" Momument, Alex Palkovich, Sculptor

"Until the last bullet. The army's sacrifice was not in vain. Our soldiers died so that Germany may live.
-Europa Europa (Based on I Was Hitler Youth Salomon by Solomon Perel)

FLORENCE
VETERANS PARK
(Hospitality District)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Florence Convention/Entertainment Center

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "Hymn of the Cherubim"

4/11/2021

Pentagon & World Trade Center Towers, Florence Veterans Park

In   Remembrance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "The Fruit of the Light"

4/15/2021

Woody Jones Blvd, Hospitality District

"Live like it's morning
Live out of step
With the world around

Herb Alpert
ROUTE 101
 

W O O D Y      J O N E S     B O U L E V A R D

Rail Trails

 

 

 

"The fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth.
-Ephesians 5:9

Biscuit, the dog

Timrod Park

South Park Avenue

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "Tomorrow"

4/17/2021

"In my heart
Everyone has a destiny
-France Joli, GONNA GET OVER YOU

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "Psalm 66:19"

4/18/2021

Timrod Park

 

" Traveling twice the speed of sound
It's easy to get burned "
-Crosby, Stills & Nash, Just A Song Before I Go

Psalm 66:19
But certainly God has heard [me]; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer
 

28 steps to the top

 

Beth Israel

First Presbyterian

Gazebo Liberty Garden, Timrod Park

Gully Branch Watershed, Timrod Park

Timrod Park S. Coit Street side

New sign(s) for Timrod Park, Spruce Street at Timrod Park Drive

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, Colour of Hearts

4/22/2021

"As time goes on
I realize
Just what you mean
To me
And now
Now that you're near
Promise your love
That I've waited to share
And dreams
Of our moments together
Color my world with hope of loving you
-Chicago, COLOUR MY WORLD

Agave Mexican downtown

 

 

 

Edited April 22, 2021 by Charles Pearson

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "Yearning"

4/26/2021

downtown

"I've got this yearnin' inside me
And it's runnin' deeper than the night
So don't go fooling with my hunger
-Climax Blues Band, GOTTA HAVE MORE LOVE

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, Chapter 4.28

 

It was spring and began on that day. He believed it was to go on for the rest of his life...

 

Florence, "Looking East"

 

"There was change
in everything.

 

 

[vicupstate]

Hey Charles (or anyone else reading) if you are in the Florence/Lake City area you should definitely check out Artfields in LC.  Very worth your time. There are some great looking restaurants in DT Lake City now as well. 

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, Chapter 4.30 (Stillness)

4/30/2021

 

"The world does keep moving, and it can be a damn cruel place. But for me, those moments of stillness, that place, that's the kingdom of God."
Joe (Paul Raci) to Ruben (Riz Ahmed), SOUND OF METAL

 

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

On 4/28/2021 at 9:21 AM, vicupstate said:

Hey Charles (or anyone else reading) if you are in the Florence/Lake City area you should definitely check out Artfields in LC.  Very worth your time. There are some great looking restaurants in DT Lake City now as well. 

thanks. i plan to. i believe this is last weekend...

[vicupstate]

Yes, it is the last weekend.  

[Charles Pearson]

artField is amazing! Lake City becomes unimpressive in minds of those, including myself, who see it otherwise.

Florence, "No Other Sound"

5/3/2021

 

"Save for a bird feeding its chirping young, I lay in a sweeping field of wildflowers under a grove of pecan trees and I smile with my eyes closed, because there is no other sound.

 

 

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, Magnet & Steel

5/22/2021

 

Pee Dee Farmers Market
Shop Local

"To show the way I feel
(With you I might try) my secrets to reveal
For you are a magnet and I am steel
-Walter Egan, MAGNET AND STEEL

South Carolina Peaches

South Carolina Watermelons

 

 

 

Les

Lambs

Hyman Farm & Vineyard

Bob's Plants

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, East of Eden

5/25/2021

 

““There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, EAST of EDEN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, Let It Whip

5/27/2021

Old McClenaghan High School S. Dargan Street exterior work and replacement windows for a new District Office for Florence School District One

"Let me be your paper man
I'd love to be your joker man
We both are here to have good fun
So let it whip
-Dazz Band, LET IT WHIP

 

Lucas Street at Interstate 95

 

Public Library, Dargan Street entrance (Irby Street backside)

Edited May 27, 2021 by Charles Pearson

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "Sunglasses at Night"

6/1/2021

 

"I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave then breathe your story lines
-Corey Hart, SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT

 

 

 

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

Florence, "Street Player"

6/14/2021

King Jefe, Irby St at W. Evans

"These sound fall into my mind
-Gary Caos, STREET PLAYER

" He loved my accent; wanted to know where I was from...I laughed, smiled, then told him I was from Barbados..." (I've always wanted to be from there, so now I am.)

Veggie burrito with sauteed squash, black beans

"The best and most authentic burrito (without a taste of sodium) I've had out of San Francisco Mission District"

 

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

Florentine Men, "Strawberry Letter 23

6/23/2021

ISAIAH 65:17-18 (NIV) (17) The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. (18) But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create -

"Pretty music, I hear
So happy and loud
Blue flowers echo
From a cherry cloud
Feel sunshine sparkle pink and blue
Playgrounds will laugh
If you try to ask
"Is it cool?"
-Brothers Johnson, STRAWBERRY LETTER 23

 

 

 

 

 

Enceladus, "Night Fever...

6/23/2021

Enceladus  Skyscrapers

"That sweet city woman
She moved through the light
Controlling my mind and my soul
-Bee Gees, NIGHT FEVER

People's Square Park, Robinhood Village

Coco Square

Robinhood Village People's Park at Union Street between 3rd and 4th Street

Downtown

Casinos Square

 

 

 

[Charles Pearson]

Enceladus, "Bittersweet Symphony

6/27/2021

Enceladus, population 10.2 million aliens

"I'm a million different people
From one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
-The Verve, BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY

 

 

 

 

Florence, "Do it again 6/27/2021   "In the mornin' you go gunnin' for the man who stole your water And you fire 'til he is done in but they catch you at the border And the mourners are all singin' as they drag you by your feet But the hangman isn't hangin' and they put you on the street -Steely Dan, DO IT AGAIN

[Charles Pearson]

TiP, "You Got It

9/27/2021

 

"One look from you I drift away
I pray that you are here to stay
Anything you want, you got it
-Roy Orbison, You Got It