Archive for December, 2009

20% of US divorces blamed on Facebook

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

On first glance, that is what this article seems to say. No doubt, that is what they want you to believe. But if you think about it for just a minute…what are the odds that somebody hooking up illicitly on Facebook is doing it for the first time? Not bloody likely IMHO.
So Facebook is not […]



The Blizzard of ’09

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Sounds like a story to tell the grandkids! I spent a couple hours today shoveling snow before I was spent, and there’s still a couple hours worth left to do tomorrow. The very best news is that the Christmas Day storm is definitely looking like a rai…



Put Aside the Blackberry and Enjoy Life for a Moment

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

“The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing every…



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-12-19 19:24:00

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

Fading Dreams?King George County. Instead of a cornfield the boundary of this baseball field is a forest and its posted with “No Trespassing” signs. My guess is that even a grounder into the trees is an automatic home run.I played a lot of baseball gr…



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-12-19 19:17:00

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

A Little Unique in the Grand Scheme of ThingsDowntown Ashland. The only town I am aware of where the rail road track runs down the center of town.



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-12-19 19:02:00

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

A Moment to RememberThe National Cemetery, Fredericksburg. This past weekend was the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg. “The muffled drum’s sad roll has beatThe soldier’s last Tattoo;No more on life’s parade shall meetThat brave and fal…



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-12-19 17:26:00

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

A Different PerspectiveA view of Fredericksburg’s most famous bridge from a different perspective. Most pictures and paintings of this bridge show a more distant view placing the bridge in the setting of the picturesque Rappahannock River. This view…



Blizzard warning for us now!

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Even tho’ the radar appears to show the snow tapering off these blizzard conditions are forecast for this afternoon as the monster low off the coast continues to intensify and move northward. We are still due for some more heavy snow so don’t let down…



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-12-19 12:49:00

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

Jabberwocky’s Getaway”Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe. “Between Montross and Foneswood in Westmoreland County. The trees are covered in lichen which gives them …



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-12-19 12:39:00

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

A Roadside Mystery?Abandon cars and farm equipment are not unusual in rural Virginia but this was my first crane. Traveling on a single lane road in Gloucester County in the middle of nowhere I came across this scene. My guess is some kid a few deca…