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Bruton Parish Cemetery
A section of the Bruton Parish Cemetery. Bruton Parish Church is located in the restored area of Colonial Williamsburg. It was established in 1674 in the Virginia Colony and remains an active Episcopal parish. There are some incredibly old tombstones which you can read with your naked eye but they do not photograph well. There were two of these close to the path that I was on that simply said “Confederate Soldier” and a year….. From the Bruton Parish web site…….. Many Confederate Soldiers died in the Battle of Williamsburg fought May 5, 1862 and were buried in the Bruton Parish church yard. At the end of that day, there were 4,000 casualties…
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Happy Charter Day William & Mary
“On February 8, 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England signed the charter for a “perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences” to be founded in the Virginia Colony. And William & Mary was born.” ~ College of William and Mary website
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Lingering On
“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” ~ Anonymous Thanks to Skeletalmess for the use of his texture, Rapture.
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The Coleman Bridge
On the eastern coast of Virginia, in the area that is considered the Coastal Plain, there are four peninsulas. The first is called the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It is separated from the mainland by the Chesapeake Bay. Bordered by the bay on the west, the Atlantic on the east and the Maryland Eastern Shore on the north, this peninsula is generally visited by traveling via the 17 mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The other three peninsula’s are the Northern Neck, the Middle Peninsula and one known simply as the Peninsula. The Northern Neck is located between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers; the Middle Peninsula is located between the Rappahannock and the York Rivers; and the Peninsula is…
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Snow & The Parkway
I posted this image earlier today when I wrote about snow on the parkway. After I got home this evening, I reprocessed it using a “recipe” and a texture from Shadowhouse Creations. I applied “Frost” from his Heavenly Vintage Texture Set at 100% linear burn…..I like this result better than the first. I also used the same for the following photos…. This gives you an idea of what the Colonial Parkway is like. It is a three lane, unmarked road with the center lane used for passing in allowed areas ~ which there are not too many. It is a really beautiful drive….a nice way to begin and end your day. 🙂
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Snow
Skippity Doo Dah…..we got snow last night as we slept! They said it would, but I didn’t believe it. Sure, it has been cold enough….but the air has also been very dry. Apparently not dry enough because the stars aligned, the conditions worked and we awoke to snow. 🙂 Not much mind you…..maybe an inch to an inch and a half. But enough to warrant a two hour delay at my daughter’s school today. By the time we got out on the streets, they were clear for the most part. After I dropped my daughter, I was off to work. I took a moment to stop on the Colonial Parkway this morning…
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Something wicked….
On this particular evening, as the sun was setting behind the clouds, the sky had an eerie kind of glow to it. I was at my mother’s house and snapping a few photos here and there when I walked by her now bare walnut tree and noticed this shot. What I didn’t notice until afterwards was the group of birds flying towards me. I noticed them when I lowered the camera….I don’t remember seeing them prior to taking the photo, but there they were. Large birds, normally gulls, are not unusual around my mother’s house. She lives near a large river, which feeds into the Chesapeake Bay. There are vultures that hang around that…
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Outside My Window ~ 12.06.09
Outside My Window…the sun is coming up to a clear sky and temps at 35F ~ wind chill is 28F. The lack of clouds and rain has made me smile this morning. Yesterday was miserable and wet…..todays forecast is 45F with sunshine and blue skies. These sunshine days are welcome…..we really could do without the rain for a few days. I believe we already have over an inch of rain for the month of December……add that to the nearly 12 we received in November, well let’s just say the ground feels like a very soggy sponge. There were some very large puddles on roadways yesterday….there is no where for this…
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Outside My Window ~ 11.15.09
Outside My Window…is no wind and rain! Yeah! Fortunately, the low pressure system that caused us so many problems is well off the coast of North Carolina now. I woke up early and saw some blue skies while the sun was rising, but clouds took over. I just looked outside and it looks like that is attempting to burn off right now. We are at 55F right now with about 87% humidity, but the best part….winds are non-existent!! Our high is suppose to reach 72F today with partly cloudy skies. We are still under a coastal flood watch until around 10 this morning. I guess all the folks right on the coast…
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Final Update
The nor’Easter that has been named Nor’Ida is slowly moving away from the North Carolina coast. The rain and winds have diminished quite a bit and are still impacting the Northeast but we are calm for the most part. No howling winds, no torrential rains….it is quiet now but we are definitely wetter than we were three days ago. I have discovered the unconfirmed rainfall total I posted yesterday was not the grand total….the final tally for Newport News was 10.01 inches of rain. Only Virginia Beach received more rain at 10.25 inches. Here are a few photos our local paper, The Daily Press, had online…… This photo was taken in Poquoson before the…