The View from Squirrel Ridge

In the right-hand picture, Kate and Allison have switched sides from the 1994 version.

This is how Orkney Springs once looked. At least, it's an artist's depiction of how it looked. I was a little confused when I saw th...

This map of the Ohio River Valley is from the book Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America . You won...

The Tiger Swallowtail This common but pretty butterfly is browsing a butterfly bush. According to Animal Diversity Web, the tiger swallowta...

This is the South Fork of the Shenandoah River at the place where US 50 crosses it. There is a boat ramp there.

Already the days are getting shorter. And the sun is going down a bit to the left of where it set a month ago.

We went up to Lake Laura last weekend to take a look at the beach. I've never actually been to the beach there while it was open even th...

Frank is very fond of morning glories, iris, and roses. So of course, we planted them. The morning glories in the garden hardly grew at all,...

I went to the Zydeco concert at the Shenandoah Music Festival on Sunday. Terrance Simien and his band played loud and spirited music to an a...

Ready to land, Bryce Mountain Resort

Above: Coleman's Restaurant, Braxton's, and the Pro Shop are in this building. Below: Condos, the Old Pro Shop, Townhomes, and the g...

Here's a youth starting up the hill on the moving walkway. Below we see tubing in progress. The tubing chutes are carpeted with huge bri...

Click the arrow to see kids mountain tubing at Bryce Resort - Summer Version. (In the winter, there is snow tubing.)

I came home from a brief trip into the "core" of the resort, and my friends were waiting in the driveway. Frank says that Ben whi...

This picture was taken at Buffalo Springs Herb Farm. FCW has been ill for over a week now - violent cough and nausea, hardly eating anything...

Bryce Resort Golf

Butterfly Perched on a Patio Chair

I went through my blog and added Labels to certain entries so that you can find other posts on the same topic. They are Civil War (sites an...

I received a request for some more information on my great-grandmother Mary Amaryllis Hammer from someone who is doing architectural tours o...