The View from Squirrel Ridge

This wall in Strasbug has been repainted. The flowers are bigger and bolder than the old version . The door to the florist is also ...

This afternoon I stopped at the Flint Hill Baptist Church because a sign indicated that there was a Civil War Trails marker. I was curious...

Flint Hill is a charming town about 13 miles southeast of Front Royal. Erected in 1854, this church is listed on the National Register of ...

Front Royal, Virginia P.S. I just learned that students call her Attie, after the school motto of Attitude and Accomplishment. Sharin...

We've had a couple weeks of spring-like weather but winter came back today. Snow fell all day but fortunately the ground was warm s...

These scenes are from a week ago. I took the first two photos at Dickey Ridge, the northernmost visitor center on Skyline Drive. As the ...

A Year Ago...  I'm clearing some files off my computer and I don't know if I ever got around to posting these. Little Ben is ...

In Alexandria, VA This snapshot from the 70's was badly faded so I scanned it and brought it up in Photoshop. Simply using Autotone ...

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The Front Royal Golf Course has some old stone walls that enclose an old cemetery. I almost gave up on finding information on this featu...

The Good,  the Random, and the Fun The Good: I love tree-lined roads! This is Indian Ridge Road between Mauzy and Harrisonburg. I imagi...

The Opequon Presbyterian Church is next to Kernstown Battlefield just south of Winchester.  I've written about it before . There...

Blog Post #5450 Thank you, Black and White Weekend for selecting my shadow shot  from last weekend as one of the six displayed this week!...

I used the flash for this ... had to darken the eye in Photoshop because the light turned it white. Then I changed it to sepia-tone but th...

Finally! My Canon Powershot G16 came back from repair this week. Actually, what I got back was a replacement camera. They had mine for 5 w...

For  Willy Nilly Friday  and More 1. Tomorrow is Genealogy Day so I scanned in two really old photos from a falling-apart old album tha...