Virginia is for lovers...all about its activities

http://www.virginia.org/home.asp?t=eNews&eM=H3&eNL=home

1st Annual Brew Ridge Trail Music Festival.8/22/10

http://brewridgetrail.com/2009/01/25/brew-ridge-trail-music-festival-press-room/  

From Virginia's newest breweries plus the best in music comes a great festival at Deveils Backbone Brewery, Nelson County, Virginia.

Blue Ridge Parkway,Nelson and Augusta Counties,Virginia

Above..Approaching Blue Ridge Parkway from Nellsyford Virginia. Below..On Blue Ridge Parkway going north. Bottom picture..Humpback Rocks from a distance. It is a .8 mile hard rocky climb to a fantastic view.

For more information on Humpback Rocks go to http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?attrid=64076

Ruuhijärvi 2010

2nd Empire Style House

This house is nestled tightly between two less desirable buildings in Brooklyn, NY.

♥♥♥♥♥Hawaiian Wedding Song By Elvis Presley♥♥♥♥♥

Old Brick Roads of Florida: The Story of the First Paved Highways from Jacksonville to Tampa

Old Brick Roads of Florida: The Story of the First Paved Highways from Jacksonville to Tampa

Remnants of Drive-In-Theatre

An abandoned drive-in theater on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on the road to Chincoteague, Virginia.

Model T Ford

Country Road Travels

For the love of old buildings...Eastern Shore Virginia

Extreme heat advisory

The only safe place in Virginia to be today is in water, with sunblock, or in an air-conditioned home. It is too hot outside.

Wigwam Motel, Holbrook, Arizona, Route 66

From log cabins to teepees, our country is full of all types of housing. This is a historic motel

Farm on Blue Ridge Parkway, continued

Cold Storage (top picture) and barn (below)

Scot-Irish popularized the log cabin use and this is mainly who settled in Appalachia.

Double Blue Sunday..Blue Mountain Brewery and Blue Ridge Parkway

Bacon Castle...Virginia.

/http://www.apva.org/baconscastle

Provides a photograph, history and visitor information on this rare surviving example of Stuart architecture in America, built in 1665.

Fort John Custis..Winslow Battery

http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/Virginia/Fort_Custis/index.htm

Wildlife Drive Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge Virginia

http://www.fws.gov/ gives info about the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.

Summertime along the 3.2 mile Wildlife Drive loop inside the Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge which is adjacent to the Assateague National Seashore on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Concealed weapons allowed in bars that serve alcohol!

huh! Yes, you read the title right. Our great state of Virginia's duly elected Republican Governor McDonnell seems to believe and the state has enacted a law allowing anyone to bring a concealed weapon in a bar that serves alcohol.

It is my opinion that this is truly one of the stupidest of moves on any body's part. I can't help but think of the old Dodge City movies where the shoot um up, bang bang in bars killed off a lot of both good and bad folks.

Is this where we are headed. Damn 2nd Amendment.

The Wonderful World of Cars

Alma Gluck - Carry Me Back To Old Virginny

Carry Me back to Old Virginny

Carry Me back to Old Virginny
Written by James Bland

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where the old darke'ys heart am long'd to go,
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place on earth do I love more sincerely
Than old Virginny, the state where I was born.

CHORUS

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There let me live 'till I wither and decay,
Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered,
There's where this old darke'ys life will pass away.
Massa and missis have long gone before me,
Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore,
There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow,
There's where we'll meet and we'll never part no more.

Early summer wildflowers along Humpback Rocks, Blue Ridge Parkway,Virginia

View and top of Humpback Rocks along Blue Ridge Parkway,Virginia

http://www.blueridgeparkway.org/

http://www.hikingupward.com/GWNF/HumpbackRocks/

Today's car show adventure

Top to bottom: Two hot rod Chevys from the 1930s and a 1965 Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible

More Oldie Goldies...

http://www.1953chevrolet.com/ grab the info.

http://www.stationwagon.com/robert_swan.html a personal history of 1959 "Plain Jane" station wagon below.

Oldie Goldie Plymouths

As seen on Route 211 just east of New Market,Virginia. To learn more about the interesting history of Plymouth automobiles go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_%28automobile%29

History of covered bridges in USA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_bridge

Meem's Bottom Covered Bridge

Near Mt. Jackson, Virginia. Longest existing covered bridge in Virginia spanning the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.