More Burg

Sunday, October 31 2010. OK, more Williamsburg photos, booooring, I know. But here's what I did: I made the thumbnails big enough to see so that you don't need t click on 'em to see the original photo unless you really want to. That should make this page go a lot faster.

I was trying to focus more on people, the "interpreters", the ones that act out the parts of the 1774 inhabitants of Colonial Williamsburg.

In this scene, the interpreters are most likely discussing the ineptitude of CW's upper management, where to spend happy hour, or maybe even the implications in Virginia of the Boston Tea Party.

This is he newly reconstructed Charelton Coffee House.

above are just random shots of the Historic Area except for the one of Lorri at the Cheese Shop.

Friday, November 5, 2010. Ho-hum, more Burg.

These will be a little different because they were all shot with my zoom lens. There are more people and different perspectives.

A long shot of the Governors Palace; shot of some flowers popping up on the Palace lawn; close-up of the Governors Palace.

Lorri, Horses, lady with kids play hoops

This is an Ox, don't ox me how I knew that.

These are guys in a saw pit where they saw planks and boards from giant logs using only hand tools.

Lorri again; slave quarters at Great Hope Plantation, part of CW; Some sort of hen.

Woman; Sheep; Woman

Woman; Well; Cat

House; Blacksmith; Colonial doggy door.

I know, right now you're thinking that I should give tours of CW.

Sir Walter Raleigh's bust guards the entrance to the Raleigh Tavern, the place where Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Wythe, George Washington and a few other rabble rousers are known to have played Texas Hold 'Em into the wee hours of the Revolution. Maybe it was Whist.

Not Lorri; Lorri; Not Lorri

Wheel barrow; J&L; J&L again.

The top of the Court House; another Palace shot

This lady was spinning yarn and yarns.

Sunday, November 7, 2010, Berkeley Plantation, site of the first Thanksgiving in the English language in North America (no matter what those Pilgrims say).

On the first Sunday of November they have a re-enactment of the first T-day complete with Native Americans, Captain John Smith, and assorted other Colonial types.

John Tyler Memorial Highway on the way there; a path at Berkeley; Lorri

Genteel dancing people with fiddler

Not-so-genteel co-ed hatchet throwing looked like more fun to me!

Peaceful scene with three teenage girls and the James river behind them. I'm sure they were sitting there all pissed off because their parents wouldn't let them bring their smart phones to the festivities. What? No texting? I'm not going.

Lorri and flowers (are the camellias?); people; the back of the plantation house.

The house next to the plantation house with the cannon ball stuck in it; Lorri and more flowers; looking up the James river.

All of sudden a bugler started playing "Taps" ( I may have forgotten to mention that "Taps" was composed and played for the first time right here at Berkely Plantation!) and these horse-and-carriage dudes started showing up so we figured we better leave. So we did.

Two days later we flew back to sunny (partly) San Diego. We had a great three weeks in Virginia but it's good to be home. I'm glad we flew home instead of taking one of those horse-and-buggy things.