The first picture is of the light house on Assateague and the new moon

Grandma washing off the sand from the shells in a big lagoon.

This is one of the wild ponies that live on the island of Assateague. Most think that the first ponies came to the island when a Spanish ship sank near the island during a hurricane hundreds of years ago. The horses swam to the island and have been living there every since.

The light house on Assateague was built in 1862 and has been warning ships to stay away from the beaches every sence.

This is a small island in a lagoon. The dark line in the back ground is the beach and the light line behind it is the ocean.

Trip to the outer banks

All of these are shells on the beach.

We loved to see the big waves come in at sunrise.

This a picture of some of the salt marshes. The docks, swans and geese all like this area.

Flooding

After the snow We got a lot of rain and our little Rapahanick River in now about 9 feet higher then normal.

Shanandoa National Park in Winter

The roads were closed but Patsy and I walked a few miles into the park to see a few of the lookouts and the tunnel. The snow was high but the roads were clear as far as we went.

Here we are leaving for our big city trip from our little old Culpeper train station.
And here were are in the New York subway 6 hours later.

We think we have found a job for Sarah
Time Square.

Looking out at Manhatten from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building.

NYC TRIP

Statue of Liberty Spiral Stairs. This is only showing one of the three tiers. And they were very narrow and very steep.

1999 old memeries

1998 Old photos and old memories

The kids must have been very good that Christmas.

How many dinners have he had in our little home?

It most be Easter.

Not all are stuffed animals.

Keran holding her Cannon primer as proff that she has just shot a 155 MM Howitzer.

Patsy and I have been scanning our old photos and the memories that come form the pictures are priceless.

This on is of Scott in 1198 with our little bumb lame that spent the spring and most of the summer at our home.

We were lucky enough to be in the biggest Virginia snow storm in over 20 years.

A look at our snowy back yard with our hungry little birds at the bird feeder.A winter sun set.

We haven't had mail for a while.

It snowed for two days straight.

We had to start shoveling before we got out of our house.

Hiking in the Blue Ridge mountains on a beautiful river trail.

Rose River Falls


Taking a break


The fawn was trying to be so still so we wouldn't see it. Really cute.


We came around a corner on the trail and there was a MAMA BEAR and two cubs!!



After they crossed mama sent the cubs up a tree.

She was a little scary but the cubs were sure cute!!
Hope you like the videos!

We really enjoyed Sarah and Scott's visit in June, it was so great having them here!
We wish we could have everyone come see us!

This is up in the mountains over looking the Shenandoah valley.