Twelfth Day of Christmas

Happy Twelfth Day of Christmas everyone!

Crim Dell

"The Crim Dell bridge is a wooden bridge on the College of William & Mary’s campus in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States, and is considered one of the College's most visually appealing elements. Crim Dell is the pond that the bridge crosses, but the bridge is commonly referred to as Crim Dell." -- Wikipedia

Concordia

"Concordia, a beautifully sculpted vignette on the pedestal of Lord Botetourt’s statue in front of the Christopher Wren building at the College of William and Mary. Norborne Berkeley, the 4th Baron Botetourt, was the governor of the Virginia Colony from 1768 to 1770. The sculpture portrays two young women, one a European representing Britannia, one a Native American representing Virginia, holding olive branches of peace out to one another, mingling them together." -- Ordinary Philosophy

Lord Botetourt

Happy New Year, my friends! Sorry about being a day late and dollar short, but I was wrapped up in an intense New Year's Day game of Monopoly. Lesson relearned. Railroads can be more valuable than even Pennsylvania Avenue with four houses. :-(

BTW, Lord Botetourt (above), under somewhat cloudy skies, also greets you on this second day of the new year. 

Joining Skywatch Friday

A Woman of No Importance

It is the rare book that I read more than once. But after watching several episodes of French Village on PBS, I knew I had to revisit Sonia Purnell's account of Virginia Hall's contribution to the French Résistance during WWII. To my way of thinking, this is the only way to truly capture both the tragedy and the triumph of those terrible years in France, namely through the experiences of people like the so-called Madonna of the Mountains.

From Afar

Christmas Eve

Wishing you all a wonderful evening!