Bird Watching: All grown up (or nearly so), 1 by 2dCousinDave

2dCousinDave wrote:
I know this is totally off topic, but some months ago I got the idea that I would like to visit each of the 95 counties in Virginia and take a picture of its court house. Maybe I thought it was something very few people had done. Maybe it was because the few pictures of courthouses that I had seen were not the best. Maybe it was because, as my wife contended, I had gone over the edge. One of the nicer things she said was, "Why couldn't we live in Delaware." (Delaware has only three counties).

Most of the court houses are old structures, built in the Greek Revival style, which I happen to find very interesting.

My approach has been to get up early each Sunday and drive to a different part of the state, then follow a circuitous route, from county seat to county seat, usually getting five or six before heading home. I kept this up all Summer, until I had 83. I needed the two at the end of the DelMarVa peninsula and 10 others, located more than 200 miles away, at the southwest corner of the state.

Saturday I left at 2:30 a.m. and headed southwest. I finally got back home at 10:45 p.m., I had driven more than 950 miles, but I got all 10.

In my travels I drove very close to Mabry Mill, which is located on the Blue Ridge Parkway, not far from the Virginia-North Carolina line. It is often photographed and I had seen many pictures of it but I have always wanted to see it in person and it truly is lovely. The kind of peaceful scene that makes you want to linger a while longer.

You probably have seen it, on a calendar or in a book, but here is one of the pictures I snapped before I reluctantly had to move on..

Dave

This message was edited Oct 5, 2009 2:53 AM