The Hat

Art Exhibit

The Things They Carry

Lanscaping

Dragons

Clearly, our cities are in need of the military to protect us from . . . dragons?

Come Together

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

The Enemy Within

Leashed?

Good luck to this guy if his horse ever decides to chase squirrels. :-)

 

Last But Not Least

Rooster Ride

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Prince George Street

The Coachman

The Sweep

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Two-by-Two

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Cyclotourism

Quite a few visitors to Colonial Williamsburg prefer to tour the sites by bike.

Fire Tower

 

Trail Signs

 High Knob Tower Trail

George Washington National Forest

Deadfall

Hightop Mountain Trail

Shenandoah National Park

 

Monuments

I guess you probably already know that our mountains in Virginia are old. I mean, REALLY old, to the tune of millions and millions of years old. That's why I felt like I was walking back in time the minute I set foot on the Hightop Mountain Trail, which is part of the 2100+ mile Appalachian Trail . It's filled with--as I'm told Nathaniel Hawthorne once put it--"earth's undecaying monuments." 

Huge boulders stacked one on top of another suddenly made me feel very, VERY small and in awe of the unimaginably powerful forces that put them there.

Afternoon Garden

According to the National Trust for Historic Preservatio, the Afternoon Garden, complete with its Venetian poles  was Fletcher Steele's first landscape project at the Naumkeag estate in the Berkshires. The  boxwood hedges were shaped to resemble an Oriental rug.