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The photography blog of Victoria Bennett Beyer, featuring travel photographs from road trips across America and botanical photography of plants, flowers and leaves.
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One of the things I love about the west are the huge skies. I walk around our property every night to look at the sunset clouds, but even I was taken aback by the color in this sky. It doesn’t look real in camera, and it didn’t look real in person. But, sometimes nature delivers more than we can imagine.
With summer has come a change of scenery for me. We spent some time in western Wyoming this year, trying to beat the heat in the mountains. Truth be told, since we moved away from Wyoming 11 years ago, my husband and I have been trying to find a way back here, at least for a few weeks of the year. This year we spent our vacation in the mountains near Dubois, Wyoming. It was a delight, for many reasons, including these views.
There are many, many beautiful trees on the grounds here, but this one was the most unique. It leans heavily out from it’s roots, nearly 45 degrees from the ground, toward the river. Its base is covered in vines, and it was so striking to catch that shock of green before the tree had fully leafed out.
The camellias at Mepkin Abbey are exceptionally beautiful. This one particular bush boasts both red and white flowers, with some petals divided between the two colors.
The gardens have some brick stairs and brick-lined grassy terraces that lead to the Cooper River. These weathered man-made elements complement the grown-in shrubs and bushes and are all nestled beneath towering oaks.
I really wanted to share with you all one of my favorite places in the world. Mepkin Abbey is a acutal, functioning abbey, near my hometown of Moncks Corner that is located on the historic site of Mepkin Plantation. You drive through an incredible oak alley to reach the public part of the grounds, known as the Luce Garden. The gardens were commissioned by the Luce family in 1937. They had planned to build a home here but never did. Now volunteers cut the grass and tend the garden, which consists of live oaks draped in moss, crepe myrtles, camellias and azaelas. Normally you can tour the abbey but because of Covid, that is no longer an option. But, happily, their website says that none of the monks have contracted the disease.
This may be the only wisteria plant that is included intentionally in the gardens, but you can see more of it climbing over the trees along the edges of the grounds. I specifically was looking to photograph wisteria and was hoping I would find some here, and I lucked out.
It felt a little strange to be walking right through this colorful collection of houses at Green Point, on our way back to the parking lot. Some are clearly still used, though perhaps just for the summer season.
