Category: Virginia

  • LOVE and a bridge

    LOVE and a bridge

    Humpback Bridge A lovely covered bridge crosses a small river in southwest Virginia. Joy and I took a long drive to check out the area. February is a cold month, and the trees were bare and the sky grey.

  • Star Wars Reads

    Star Wars Reads

    Humor and Wit We have fun when our subjects are smart and have a sense of humor. That pretty much covers every Stormtrooper I’ve met. Kids and Droids Star Wars Reads day brings kids out for fun with books and Star Wars. We went to Barnes & Noble to take part in some readings and […]

  • Yorktown

    Yorktown

    The village of colonial Yorktown has a famous battlefield and a lovely High street

  • Saturday Yard Sales

    Saturday Yard Sales

    There are lots of yards sales in the Valley during the summer.

  • Virginia Spring

    Virginia Spring

    A Spring Evening This evening I put my new(old) 50mm prime lens on my new camera walked around my neighborhood. Joy came with me. I watched for colors and compositions that would benefit from a really shallow depth of field. Joy played the role of model, as she so often does.

  • Frontier Museum

    Frontier Museum

    The museum represents several periods of construction by Virginia settlers.

  • Lexington

    Lexington

    Just a drive on the back roads between Charlottesville and Lynchburg.

  • Gunston Hall

    Gunston Hall

    Gunston Hall is the plantation of Founding Father George Mason.

  • Belle Grove Plantation

    Belle Grove Plantation

    The Belle Grove plantation lies in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley.

  • Stratford Hall

    Stratford Hall

    The estate lies on the river and contains one of the few water level accesses from the West side of the Potomac for miles.