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While each event was magical, the first was amazing. This year on different trips around the country I saw the Dogwoods bloom three times. In state parks, the Oconee Bells announce spring along with other spring wildflowers too numerous to name. To contrast the white of the Dogwoods is the state flower, the Yellow Jessamine, a vine that hangs from Loblolly Pines and whatever stately tree it can hold on to as it announces it is springtime in the south. I experienced our spring first: the one with those first days of watching the leaves budding out in anticipation of the beautiful white Dogwood flowers. What was so fascinating about this year’s spring is that I got to experience it three times. But these trips were in the spring, their spring.
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Over the past year I had the opportunity to visit a couple of states from different regions of our country, where winter lasts a little longer than ours in South Carolina. I know there are some people out there saying: “The four seasons in South Carolina? You guys don’t really have a winter and your summer is very long!” My point exactly. But this month’s column is not about the beginning of a South Carolina summer but rather why the seasons in South Carolina are one of many “reasons” South Carolina is “just right” for vacations and state parks. I am writing this month’s column the week before Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer! Time for summer vacations, flip flops and sunglasses.