Roads, Rocks and Laundry

End of January Willy Nilly.
 

1. We had one snow at the beginning of January and the rest of the month felt like March. That's fine with me!

Fences: Belle Grove Road.

2. Temperatures are colder in the mountains. There's still some ice on the rocks along Skyline Drive.

Black and White Weekend.

3. Skywatch: The sunlight is streaking in from the upper right in this scene near Stephens City.

4. Luray, VA: I pulled over along Main Street to take a picture of the road going down the hill and then back up. This street is the old US 211, which now has a bypass to carry through-traffic around the town.

I considered this photo for the City Daily Photo theme of "Streetscape" but I'm planning to post one closer to home tomorrow.

5. Our old washing machine stopped draining and the repair person said it is not worth fixing. It's a stackable due to lack of space in the laundry area so we went looking for a replacement. Look how tall they are! That won't do at all! I can barely reach the controls and neither of us can read what they say. Why would anyone think this is acceptable design?

We decided to get a "laundry center" instead, which is a one piece washer-dryer. The dryer is still on top but the controls are all at chest-height so I can read them. The big home improvement stores cannot deliver for a week so we went to Beidler's in Woodstock. They can deliver tomorrow.