Well, weekends have been consumed of late by the construction of our next (final) home, so there isn’t a ton of photo activity to talk about. We’ve been driving back and forth to Williamsburg pretty much every weekend of late. Progress on the house is amazing. Josh, the contractor, hinted last week that they think it could be ready in June. Wow, that’s a far cry from August we were prepared for. Let’s look at a few pictures to see the progress. This is going to be a standard set of shots around the house, in chronological order. January 27th: We met with the CG and the framer to go…
The Grand Retirement Home:
This post first started as a Sleepy Christmas Morning post, and then morphed into a Happy New Years post, and then migrated to a retirement house post. Sorry, time and temperament have not lended themselves to blogging here of late. Mea culpa…. At last discussion, we were still in a grand state of indecision. Early in the New Year, after exploring a lot of options, both in and out of the Northern Virginia area, Melanie and I realized the only place we kept coming back to was Williamsburg, VA. We had made initial contact with a local realtor and made the leap to actually looking at houses to buy. So,…
Manassas National Battlefield
Precursor: Some time back, I stumbled across a “final post” on a blog I had never before heard of; Leicaphilia. I don’t consider myself to be a particular Leicaphile, but this final post was quite poignant. The blogger, who was a dedicated Leicaphile, had been fighting stomach cancer for some time. He had just been sent home from his latest visit to the hospital to die. Doctors gave him a week, maybe two to live. So he posted a farewell to all the friends he had made worldwide via his blogging about Leica’s and film photography. Only. he didn’t. This was several months ago and Tim is still with us….
Williamsburg and a Cruise on the Elizabeth River
For my 65th birthday, the two main ladies in my life, Melanie and Meghan, decided we were going to spend the weekend in Williamsburg. As you may, or may not, know Melanie and I are building a house in Williamsburg, so this would be a great opportunity to explore some more and just get to know the area. They decided to book rooms at the Marriot Manor Club at Ford’s Colony, which is literally 2 blocks away from where the new house will be. One of the things I did in advance was book a ride on the Victory Rover Naval Base Cruises for Saturday morning. So, per our usual…
Labor Day Car Show in Fairfax
One of the pleasantries of living in the small college town of Fairfax, Virginia are the myriad of social events put on either by the city or GMU throughout the year. There is always something to see and do and it’s been areal treat being able to participate just by walking, no worries about parking and such. This time around we’re visiting the annual Fairfax Labor Day Car show. I had had the opportunity to attend last year, so I was looking forward to this year’s presentation. The show has been presented for the last 23 years and is very well organized. If there wasa fault this year, there were…