Shadows and More Shadows

Walkway at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe, 
and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
~Blaise Pasca

Gene and Eloise outside the Museum

"A daughter is a gift of love."
~Unknown

Gene and Eloise ~ My "Baby" and His "Baby

"Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad."
~Anne Geddes

This post is linked with
Weekend in Black and White and Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Shadows on Bridge to Somewhere

Shadows on our “Bridge to Somewhere” taken just before the trees lost all 

of their leaves. You can see the front end of Bud’s truck on the left ~ "Big Blue ~ and the bay window of our living room in the background. 

SOOC

This post is linked with Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

The Quiltery ~ Faifield, VA

The Quiltery

Genie’s Favorite Place To Spend Her Money

Sign at the Top of the Driveway

 The old home Is  made of stucco and wood.

We use the side entrance rather that the one 

on the front porch.This is where we park, too.

The other sign is here on the fence as you drive in the driveway.

There were lots of squiggly shadows on the lawn yesterday afternoon. Not until tonight when I started working to upload the photos did I discover that I had successfully captured both the vertical and the horizontal boards in the shadows. That was a whopper of a surprise...a nice surprise :-)

The other side of the fence in the shot just above.

All I can say is this has to be the most beautiful quilting shop I have ever frequented. The wood inside is vintage, and the guild ladies who run it are the nicest people in the world. Their fabrics are gorgeous. Classes are held upstairs and are very popular. It is a wonderful spot located only a mile from my school. It was here I purchased all of the Civil War reproduction fabrics to make my 12 Christmas present wreaths.

This post is linked with:

Sign, Signs

Friday Fences

Shadow Shot Sunday

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For the Love of Black and White

Bud’s Bike

Horseshoe at Old Deserted Home

This post is linked with 

“The Weekend in Black and White” and “Shadow Shot Sunday."

Nature’s Beauty Is All Around Us

The Fence and Gate That Gene Built ~ Richmond, VA

(Eloise and her mommy are walking to the house.)

View of Sky and Mountains from Bridge over the Maury River at Rockbridge Baths, VA


Our task must be to free ourselves...
by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living things
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
~Albert Einstein

This post is linked with Friday Fences, Skywatch Friday, Weekend Reflections and Shadow Shot Sunday..

Bud Runs the Star City Half Marathon ~ 11-19-11

A Combination of Bridges and Shadows

Faster Runners Crossing Bridge at about 4 Mile Mark

If you look, there are 2 bridges...the first one with the blue rails, and then the larger one in the background going over the railroad tracks.

Buddy after crossing the Bridge...one side was closed to traffic..

Here he is  running in front of the Ramada Inn where we were staying ~ at about Mile 4. It was a really cold morning. His time was a bit more than last week’s ~ 3 hours 18 minutes.In Richmond he ran it in 3 hours 13 minutes. It was really fun to see him take off and then run by me later.

These are the spectators crossing back over the bridge at the Ramada Inn. The start of the race was behind these folk, back across the bridge, and down to the right a bit.

I took this shot after leaving the start of the race...couldn’t resist the shadows. The blue railing bridge is right up ahead and round to the left.

Once again Helen, the girl who works with Buddy at the Outfitters, ran the race. She is a hard core runner so started out with him, and then she was long gone! She is a marathon runner.

Down the middle of the ground between the check-in desk area and the bedroom wing at the Ramada Inn. there was what I would call a mini-moat- it was probably a run-off drainage ditch. As you can see, one side was totally covered with leaves from the trees. The photo was taken around noon this morning - after the half marathon -  when the sun was shining brightly.

This is the section down by the footbridge connecting the check-in area to the bedroom wing. This shot was taken early before the sun was out and before the race began.

This post is linked with  Sunday Bridges and Shadow Shot Sunday.

Sunday Bridges with Shadows ~ 11-5-11

Every year there is a fall festival at the Cyrus McCormick Homeplace at Raphine, VA...very close to my school.  Here are some photos from that fun day.

Foot bridge from One Angle

Footbridge from Another Angle 

The Old Farnhouse

The Mill

Tree and the Pond

Buddy With a Wee Shadow

I just couldn’t leave him out of the post. He is not being a brides fellow, but rather he treated me to some of these dried somethings which have little black berries on the tops.

This post is linked with Sunday Bridges and Shadow Shot Sunday.

Shadow Shot Sunday ~ 10-29-11

Eloise & Gene at North Mt. Overlook Studying a Bug 
Eloise wanted her own hiking sticks, but we could not find any short enough for her at 4 - now she is 6. We ended up getting her a child’s set of ski poles and painting them pink. Success! Where there is a will, there is always a way :) Anything for my Eloise!

Eloise Wearing Genie’s ...aka “Baga's"...Backpack

Hiking through the Forest on North Mt.

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.  But he cannot save them from fools.”
  ~John Muir

This post is linked with Shadow Shot Sunday.

I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up ~ 10-22-11

Fallen Tree in Beartown State Park ~ Droop Mt. ~ West Virginia

(Because of the canopy and thickness of the forest, there were just bits and pieces of light coming through here and here. I chose not to lighten the photograph because I wanted you to see it as I did. It was like walking in a magical Hobbit Land. I will be posting more wonderful shots during the week so stayed tuned.)

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.  But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."  

~Henry David Thoreau

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Signs, Signs & Lots of Shadows ~ 10-12-11

Some of the signs from our hike through

 the Cranberry Glade in West Virginia.

(Sorry about the 2 errors in my listing of this post. Guess that is what happens after one goes without internet for almost 3 weeks...or else I am just getting too old!)

Cranberry Glade Area

Please Do Not Litter

Flag Glade ~ 8 Acres

Stay on the Boardwalk

Help Protect the Glades

OOPS! The Wrong Way!

Shadows on the Boardwalk thru the Glades

Be Sure to Hide Your Valuables

There are more photos from the hike in an earlier post. Actually, it is the second “genie~va~us” in Lesley’s Linky list.

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” ~John Muir 

This post is linked to Lesley’s Signs, Signs and Shadow Shot Sunday.