The View from Squirrel Ridge

Tomorrow Frank's sister leaves to fly back to the west coast. Today his brother (and wife and dog) drove back to Pennsylvania after a br...

Here we are with our guests on Sunday.

Deauville Deer Farm has opened for the season but feeding the deer is no longer allowed. This is because chronic wasting disease has been fo...

This is our local post office. We stop there almost every day to pick up mail because mail is not delivered to our homes here in the resort...

Interstate 81 splits New Market Battlefield . View of I-81 from Fisher's Hill Battlefield Yes, there are a lot of trucks on this highway...

Jann Richards-Hardy will teach basic yoga classes beginning Thursdays, May 3, 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. at the Old Pro Shop in Bryce Resort. ...

Care2 has added "Click to fight Global Warming." The free (to you) click will Offset 1 Pound of Carbon.

We've been busy the past few days. Friday: I went plant-shopping with a friend while Frank went to a doctor appointment. Then I baked a ...

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Here I am with Ben at the tennis court in Orkney Springs. We forgot to take his ball with us so we took turns getting him to run around with...

I believe this is a red winged blackbird. I don't see them around here very often but this one was hanging out by the public dumpsters o...

Frank signed up this lovely piece of farmland for sale. It's an eleven and a half-acre parcel east of Mt. Jackson on the lower slopes o...

Sketch is signed J. E. Taylor At Fisher's Hill Battlefield (south of Strasburg, Virginia), there is this interpretive sign. It reads: F...

Late Day, Early Spring, Shenandoah County

Our tenant at Glebe Harbor says she wants to stay another year. Yay! That way our mortgage there is covered until next summer. I'll mis...

A long time ago and far away, Marie had some friends over for her 3rd birthday.

Once in a great while I buy some goat butter. It does not give me tummy pain for several days the way cow butter does, and I like buttered v...