{"id":6047,"date":"2020-02-12T13:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2020-02-12T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:55:36","slug":"myrtle-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/12\/myrtle-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Myrtle Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;ve been learning more things about <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/CpUQMvFtWCxsJXuRA\">Myrtle Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, it&#8217;s huge. We&#8217;re in North Myrtle Beach, that&#8217;s the North Carolina end, and it stretches south into South Carolina for something like 60 continuous miles of beach.<\/p>\n<p>This morning on my walk I was trying to figure out some flowering shrubby trees. They look like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cameliabush.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cameliabush.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cameliabush-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cameliabush-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought they might be the crepe myrtle of Myrtle Beach, but now I don&#8217;t think so. The flowers reminded me of a botanical drawing I found a couple of years ago in &#8220;The amateur&#8217;s greenhouse and conservatory : a handy guide to the construction and management of planthouses, and the selection, cultivation, and improvement of ornamental greenhouse and conservatory plants&#8221;, 1873, by Shirley Hibberd, a book that I think was digitized at Pitt, as part of one of the Google Book mass digitization projects and I found online in the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/amateursgreenhou00hibb\" width=\"560\" height=\"384\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Anyways, that picture is from the chapter on camellias.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6047 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/12\/myrtle-beach\/cameliajaponica\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"412\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cameliajaponica.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cameliajaponica.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cameliajaponica-366x450.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/cameliajaponica-122x150.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6049'>\n\t\t\t\tCamellia Japonica\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/12\/myrtle-beach\/camelia\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/camelia.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/camelia.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/camelia-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/camelia-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6048'>\n\t\t\t\tFlowering tree in Myrtle Beach\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I even saw one tree that had the partially white flowers, which some seed catalog I found says are:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6053\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6053\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/images.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/images-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governor Moulton Camellia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I guess that&#8217;s what they are.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re a lot prettier than the scenery on the rest of my walk.<\/p>\n<p>This is what America looks like.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6056\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6056\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hwy17MyrtleBeach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hwy17MyrtleBeach.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hwy17MyrtleBeach-470x450.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hwy17MyrtleBeach-150x144.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hwy 17 in Myrtle Beach<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6055\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6055\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beachwear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beachwear.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beachwear-425x450.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beachwear-142x150.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheap beach wear<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6054\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6054\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ruthshapiroapprovedsugn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ruthshapiroapprovedsugn.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ruthshapiroapprovedsugn-399x450.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ruthshapiroapprovedsugn-133x150.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grammatically correct neighborhood sign &#8211; my mother would approve<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;ve been learning more things about Myrtle Beach. For starters, it&#8217;s huge. We&#8217;re in North Myrtle Beach, that&#8217;s the North Carolina end, and it stretches south into South Carolina for something like 60 continuous miles of beach. This morning on my walk I was trying to figure out some flowering shrubby trees. 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