Hand-made Chocolates from La Bonboniere in Aiken, South Carolina (Also has a shop in Augusta, Georgia)
A pretty promenade in Aiken, South Carolina:
White chocolate covered ganache filled chocolates for nibbling (above - photo by Ruth Paget)
Below: New Court House on Chesterfield Street in Aiken, South Carolina
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)
Below: The Old Court House on Chesterfield Street in Aiken, South Carolina
A Palladian inspired window on the old courthouse.
Monticello outside Charlottesville, Virginia has similar windows on a smaller scale. - (bottom - photo by Ruth Paget)
Fashionable streetlight on Chesterfield Street in Aiken, South Carolina
Chesterfield Street is a boulevard street with a tree-lined park in the middle of it with benches under the trees offering shade in the heat.
A white picket fence that will pick you if you try and climb over it in Aiken, South Carolina.
Promenade lunches in Aiken, South Carolina
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
