Man, I love this country & this state. There is something beautiful everywhere you turn, in every single state. Sure, problems as well (SC leads the nation in number of books banned in schools, for example) but you can't beat the green back roads we took today to see the rare & endangered rocky shoals spider lily at Langsford Canal State Park. The lilies ~ the largest known patch ~ stand in clumps right in the shallow Catawba River. We were there at peak season. There's a mile-long path where we saw remnants of the 1820s canal, an eagle's nest that has been there for 30 years with the same pair (which I didn't see), & 2 people in a canoe stuck on the rocks. Then we ate a terrible Mexican lunch in Chester, as Gene's meat-&-3 restaurant was closed, & came home full of beauty. Beauty everywhere!
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