RESTORING HONOR

What a great day! We left our house at 3AM to get a bus headed to DC. We attended the Restoring Honor rally. The day was beautiful, the crowd unbelievable, and the event fantastic!
I am a firm believer that we must get back to the founding principles of this country and we must do so firmly with the belief and power of God. And we best be doing it soon...as in now.

These shots were taken from atop a pillar at the WWII Memorial. No, it wasn't me that scampered up, my knees barely held up during a day of walking. Atop the pillars were some agile young men who took my camera I passed up. Quite a scene....

This is as close as we got, which wasn't too bad. We were able to listen to the whole event on our MP3 players and an FM feed. Also this is about I saw...heads and shoulders. Being there was what was important....

The DC Fire Department kindly provided a cooling station....

I am waiting for the day that we Restore Honor back to this house.....

Just some scenes....

Colonial Williamsburg is forever keeping me and my camera busy....

I always see something...

So here are some pretty scenes....

Crepe Mrytles from a bedroom window

It was raining...

The key caught my eye

Welcome!!!

These flowers were so pretty....and it was raining..

the rain drops are bouncing off the leaves.....

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Homeward bound

This vacation was more than just that.

This lady is my BestestFriend from childhood. We met just as we turned 6 ( our birthdays are two weeks apart) and started 1st grade. We were inseparable. In 6th grade my Navy dad was transfered from Virginia Beach to Maine. My BestestFriend and I corresponded for a few years, but my family moved two more times and we just lost contact. And so we spent many years wondering about other, but figured finding one another after marriages (name changes) and move would make it an impossibility.

Fast forward to the age of the internet and classmates.com....it was there I found her. Her dad while Navy wasn't transferred like mine and she went to the my "first guess" for a high school. It was from that site that we were reunited....it had been 40 years since we last were in contact!!!!

This summer was our "50th Anniversary" of when we first met. We shall not loose track of on another again!!!!!

See you next time BestestFriend.....they are getting ready to make the southward turn headed to Florida, and we are headed north....

Winchester, VA....still Confederate land...as the major highways have General's names...

Winchester.... our last putz stop on the way home....our favorite stop...and of course I listen to Pasty Cline, as this was her home town...

Such a lovely name for a road in Winchester...the Apple Capital....

Historic Jamestowne

The site of were the three ships to Jamestown landed...

From the tricentenial in 1897. Today was another hot Virginia day....

The last time the two of us stood here was in 1964.... my we haven't changed a bit.....

In recent years they have found the footprints of the fort and church. They are doing the archolgical excavations now.

When I was last here in 2007...there was a eagle's nest. The National Park had a web cam on them. This is Virginia, was of the eaglettes that I saw then... She is beautiful..

Making Glass at Jamestown

The glass kilns heat to 2000 degrees. In the late 1500's and early 1600's England had pretty much deforested the land using the wood heat their kilns. So I would venture to say, that the early colonists eyes must of lit up when they say the huge forest awaiting them in Virginia when they landed in 1607. By 1609 they had a glass making in Jamestown was in operation.

We take for granted in our world today the ready availability of glass... and the use of natural gas to heat the kilns rather than cords and cords of wood!

This is a replica of the 1609 kiln

This gentlemen is starting the process of a cobalt blue vase....

Here he blow the center open, and then transfers this to another worker who then shapes the object....

In just a matter of minutes the orange glow is gone and the blue is showing, but the glass is still soft. Here he is forming the spout....

A hot glob of glass is being transferred to form the handle...

This whole process took about 5 minutes...and yes the glass was still to hot to handle.

They made glass in three colors...we were there on "Blue Day"