Category: Virginia
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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.
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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 […]
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Yorktown
The village of colonial Yorktown has a famous battlefield and a lovely High street
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Saturday Yard Sales
There are lots of yards sales in the Valley during the summer.
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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.
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Frontier Museum
The museum represents several periods of construction by Virginia settlers.
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Lexington
Just a drive on the back roads between Charlottesville and Lynchburg.
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Gunston Hall
Gunston Hall is the plantation of Founding Father George Mason.
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Belle Grove Plantation
The Belle Grove plantation lies in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley.
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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.