A pretty promenade in Aiken, South Carolina:
White chocolate covered ganache filled chocolates for nibbling (above - photo by Ruth Paget)
A cupola topped by a weather vane on the new courthouse allows hot air to rise up out of the building beneath it. A similar cupola sits on top of Mt Vernon in Virginia. (Below - photo by Laurent Paget)
A Palladian inspired window on the old courthouse. Monticello outside Charlottesville, Virginia has similar windows on a smaller scale. - (bottom - photo by Ruth Paget)
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
