The View from Squirrel Ridge

Frank owns a townhome in Montclair (Dumfries, VA) which will be available for rent soon. It has 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and a deck. It is clo...

Growing in our backyard are these pink lady's slippers. These wildflowers are uncommon but you can find them growing near pine trees her...

Like many photographers, I love unusual lighting effects. Here's Professor Poland in the crisp sunlight on our West Virginia Field Tri...

I updated the calendar page for Spiritual Singles , as I do every month. I see there is only one classified ad this month, and that's fr...

I've posted a basic page for the Kanawha Valley Campaign Civil War Tour. Later I'll add more photos and descriptions of the militar...

The lily scattered pollen across the table before it faded.

Since I'm calling this blog "The View from Squirrel Ridge," I feel I need to show a picture of a squirrel every month or so. I...

Thanks to Sitemeter I see that my nephew Elias Fallon has a blog and he links to mine. And I see on his that his dad Larry also has a blog...

Kanawha Falls can be seen from Route 60 at Gauley Bridge, WV. During the Civil War, high swift water here prevented the Union Army from trap...

The proper spelling of Carnefex Ferry is open to debate. The original spelling was Carnifix, the state park is spelled Carnifex, and it...

Our library here at Bryce Resort is having a book sale tomorrow (May 27). On July 1 we will hold another book sale in connection with Bryce...

Here are some signs from our Kanawha Campaign Field Trip. Some of these are historical and some (like the first) are more indicative of to...

Here's the route we took through West Virginia as we followed the Kanawha Valley Campaign of 1861. Even those who are not interested in ...

My daughter Marie just returned from safari and wrote about it in her blog. She wrote about seeing some mating lions and got a sudden incre...

On the second night of our Civil War tour, we stayed at Hawk's Nest State Park. It overlooks the New River Gorge and has a hotel and re...

Our Group in West Virginia, May 21, 2006 How many students would drive 6 to 8 hours for a class? And how many would meet for class at 6:45 A...

Guppy was happy to leave the kennel and come home! He and Ben stayed at Seven Bends Kennel while we went to West Virginia. The kennel and ve...

We spent the weekend on a Civil War tour of the Kanawha Valley sponsored by Northern Virginia Community College. The weather was great and t...

Portraying a Civil War Soldier Living History Demonstration, Mt. Jackson, VA Last weekend a festival in Mt. Jackson included some reenactors...

Early this year I wrote about ancestors on the Morton side of my family. I just came across my grandmother and her parents on the 1900 Cens...