The View from Squirrel Ridge

Edith J. Carrier Arboretum Harrisonburg, VA in the Shenandoah Valley See also Autumn Reflections and JMU's Arboretum . Mall...

It was just a light snow and it melted fairly quickly. By Wednesday temperatures were warm enough that we could walk around jacket-less exc...

Like many libraries throughout the country, our library in Basye celebrated the birthday of famed author Dr. Seuss. He wrote 44 children...

A popular activity at our library's Dr. Seuss event turned out to be face painting. In honor of The Cat in the Hat , children had the...

This is my thirty-three-hundredth post on this blog! I started it in 2005 and I still blog almost every day. I think blogging has lost som...

By the time I showed up to help at the Dr. Seuss event at the library, the cake was already cut and Chef Dave was busy cooking green eggs ...

Here's one of the pileated woodpeckers on a suet feeder. One the left side of the pole there's a recently-broken bird feeder. I'...

I spotted the tiny village of Waterlick on an old Jed Hotchkiss map of the Battle of Cedar Creek. The roads look familiar - could that be R...

Rohn Engh of Photosource has shared a model copyright statement for photographers to use on their websites: "All photographs, text an...

Shenandoah River Lakes, Warren County, VA Our tenants in the Shenandoah River Lakes house have moved out. They are still working on clean...

Our library in Basye has been doing a series of children's programs on "What Do People Do All Day?" The February 25th program...

After I removed the Captcha requirement from the Comments page, I started getting spam comments, five or six a day. They were usually ads c...

Musician, Winchester February went be so quickly, even with the extra "leap" day. The weather was the mildest I've ever see...

Old Court House Winchester City Hall See all my posts that mention Winchester . Link: Winchester, Virginia

View from the Courthouse Steps, Winchester, Virginia Here Frank is looking at a plaque about Lord Fairfax , who owned and administered a ...

The old courthouse in Winchester is now a museum located on the downtown mall. The downstairs has a courtroom and a gift shop. Upstairs is a...

In Winchester, VA

County Courthouse, Winchester, VA Now a museum, the old courthouse in Winchester was once used as a hospital during the Civil War. An upp...

We have a pair of pileated woodpeckers that visits our yard frequently. Usually if I see one and watch for a while, I'll spot the other ...