The View from Squirrel Ridge

On the Maryland part of Assateague Island, we went a little way out on a trail and came across a large dark rock formation ... only it didn...

This building on the Maryland side of Assateague Island was the "auxiliary boathouse of the Pope Island Life-Saving Station which stoo...

One afternoon we visited the Maryland end of Assateague. It's a fairly long drive from the Virginia visitors' area of the same islan...

Since Frank is fond of Ocean City, we drove there from Chincoteague for lunch. We ate at a restaurant which has an outdoors deck with a go...

Wild Horses, Assateague Island, MD

I learned a couple of years ago that it's no use trying to focus on a bird in flight. I'm not that fast, and autofocus is even slowe...

When we lived on Egret Court (Montross), we never saw an egret, although great blue herons lived around our cove. On Assateague Island, how...

We didn't try crabbing. The little critters would probably pinch me! And who could blame them?

I took this waterfront photo while we were waiting for our wash at a laundromat. Later we had dinner at the restaurant that you see in the d...

I kept the dogs pretty much separate for the first day or two, and I still separate them at meal time and whenever I cannot supervise them. ...

Frank spent more time at the resort's annual festival than I did. He was a volunteer at the Lions Club Booth. Above we see Rich Armell o...

Today's statistics for this blog show that it's averaging 101 page views per day.  Number of visitors is now 56. Many come through ...

These are from the July 5 fireworks display here at Bryce Resort. They hold it on a Saturday because that's when Brycefest is held, and ...

Marie just returned from the Grand Canyon and she's been writing about her rafting trip on her blog. She mentioned our trip there almos...

If you use your imagination... but no, we did not see faces in the sky as we watched the fireworks. The prolonged exposure gives some odd ef...

I posted a map for my Trevilian Station to Piedmont Civil War Field Trip page. It shows the main places mentioned: Richmond, Louisa, Trevil...

This fellow resides next to the lane going to the Assateague Inn. I don't know his story - or where he got that big bandana.

This is the only road onto Chincoteague Island from the mainland. Construction is underway just north of here for a replacement bridge. See ...

Friday, July 4: Bluegrass Festival at Shrinemont (Orkney Springs) Saturday, July 5: Brycefest 2008 : Music, crafts, and more. Ending with f...