The View from Squirrel Ridge

Subtle Rainbow Over Walmart, Woodstock Partial Rainbow, Basye, VA

Near Mauzy, VA When I drive from Basye to Harrisonburg or Staunton, I like to take Route 42 to Broadway and from there continue straight ...

It's a great time of year to be outside and the Shenandoah Valley has plenty of events to enjoy in October. Mount Jackson is holding the...

One of the Heritage Weekend events was an exhibit on Civil War Medicine inside the Presbyterian Church, which was used as a hospital durin...

The Presbyterian Church was open on Heritage Weekend and Civil War Reenactors were there. I didn't get close-up photos of their camp bec...

This historic house in Moorefield was built by merchant Samuel A. McMechen around 1853. Notice how the Greek Revival front is reminiscent of...

Last weekend we took advantage of Hardy County Heritage Days to visit a couple of towns in West Virginia. My excuse for driving to Moorefiel...

Here it is October already. Summer went so quickly! Join me in reviewing some of our excursions here in Virginia and our closest neighbor st...

WVU Experimental Farm Wardensville Feeding Trout Admiring Spring-Watered Veggies For more about this, see previous Farm Tour pos ...

We made it to Hardy County last Saturday for their annual Heritage Weekend. Our first stop was the Reymann Memorial Farm near Wardensville, ...

Landscape North of Wardensville

The girl was feeding corn stalks to the goats. Little Goat seemed delighted with the snack. I took these pictures in Hardy County, WV.

Last week the September meeting at our Basye Orkney Springs Community Library was followed by a brief reception honoring volunteer Lynn McFa...

I took this picture last week at Shenandoah River Lakes. I think the flowers are coreopsis. In the distance, you can see the north end of th...

Taken 9/23/2011

I'm pleased to report that our house in the Northern Neck is now leased for a year. The folks who rented it are building a house nearby....

Here's our amphibian buddy showing himself in daylight. I placed a dog statue next to him for scale. The dog is 11 inches tall. I worr...

I don't know how many times I've followed a sign to a "Public Boat Landing." It's not that I'm a boater or even a ...