"If it could only be like this always --- always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe." --- Evelyn Waugh Summer is especially glorious in the Shenandoah Valley. The mountains' dark green outline offers a perfect framework for a picture of bright flowers and colorful fruits and vegetables. ... VIEW POST
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Taffy. Cracker Jack. Summer!
"Summer Afternoon - Summer Afternoon; To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." --- Henry James Once July 4th is over, I feel like summer is at its height. All of the celebrations have their genesis in the early days of the Republic. Historical sources ... VIEW POST
Summertime Treehouse
“Now we want to hear all your adventures, and let us relieve you of your burdens.” Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss The Family Robinson has the prize for the most famous treehouse, if only in our imaginations from descriptions on the page. But Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond's ... VIEW POST
Roadtrip to Richmond!
"The Natural bridge, the most sublime of Nature’s works ... so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!" --- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia Happy summer! As COVID restrictions ease, it feels ... VIEW POST
Summer. Starts. Now.
"In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below." --- In Flanders Fields by John McCrae Memorial Day Weekend is the official beginning of summer. But it is so much more to ... VIEW POST