PHOTO: Summertime approaches

As the legislature heads towards its final stretch in the next six weeks, South Carolina’s fields are greening-up with crops.  Just as gardeners are hoping for plentiful bounty of tomatoes, peppers, squashes, melons and all sorts of goodies, so too are the state’s farmers, many of whom were hit hard in the Midlands and Pee Dee with last year’s flooding.  Pictured are last year’s flowers on top of tobacco plants in a field near Sniders in rural Colleton County. (Photo by Andy Brack.)