Lantana Sky

Just a little bit of Summer during our winter. This photo was taken during a trip to Charleston, South Carolina in late October of 2015. I was at a conference and had some time to myself, so I took a drive up to a coastal island town called the Isle of Palms, a barrier island on the Atlantic Coast. The town lies along a narrow strip of land, hugging the beach, separated from the mainland by the Intracoastal Waterway. It is an affluent community of both vacation home owners and year-round residents, with large beachfront homes, resorts, and local restaurants.
The island's original inhabitants were the Sewee Native American tribe. Prepare for tragedy, as is always the case with most early Native American stories....
The town flourished from trade with the Sewee and neighboring tribes. The Sewee exchanged their deer hides for manufactured goods and beads from the English. However, the Sewee, who received only five percent of what buyers in England paid for their deer skins, felt that this business was unfair. Upon noting that the English ships always came in at the same location, they were confident that it was the direct route to England. They believed that by rowing to the point on the horizon where the ships first appeared, they could reach England, and once there, establish more profitable, direct trade. Therefore, the Sewee nation decided to build a navy.
Months later, the Sewee had completed their navy of canoes, and they filled the vessels with hides, pelts and their most valuable possessions. All able-bodied Sewee men and women boarded the boats and took to the sea. Only the children, the sick and the elderly were left behind. As the Sewee entered open ocean, high seas engulfed their canoes. The survivors were rescued by a passing English slave ship only to be sold into slavery in the West Indies. Ouch.
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This photo was taken at a more or less random point along the beach. Development is separated from the beach by wild vegetation borders, which you cross on boardwalks to reach the sea. In many of the low-lying areas between the boardwalks Lantana grow wild and in great profusion. I love lantana, but it doesn't grow well outside of tropical climates. I liked the juxtaposition of the red, yellow, and orange flowers with the oddly aquamarine sky, and captured this shot. I hope you enjoy the photo...
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