Stop messing with my daffodils.

The downtown library is offering a new concert series, “Music on Mondays in March,” which started tonight with the Quintessential Brass Repertoire, an outstanding group of professional musicians. One of the trumpeters is Zack Smith of the Dixie Pow…

With super warm temperatures this weekend (it hit 80 today), we decided to get back in the habit of walking the downtown neighborhoods. Saturday’s outing took us to the neighborhood below the college, from Sunken Road to Kenmore Ave. I was searching …

We stopped by the Salem Church Library this afternoon to check out the grand re-opening of the new expanded facility. The expansion is quite nice—as a librarian friend of mine noted, there’s a Borders feel to the place now. All that’s missing is …

At least that’s what all of the news programs have been calling it. In our neck of the woods, it might not qualify as mega, but even 4 to 6 inches around here is nothing to sneeze at. We spent a good part of the morning shoveling the driveway and diggi…

I spent the past week in Port St. Lucie, spring home of the NY Mets and winter home of my NY mother. The town is on the east coast of Florida, about halfway between Miami and Orlando. For me, its major claim to fame, aside from Mom, is the average dail…

This is the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fredericksburg, the church I’ve been attending for the past 18 years. It’s on Caroline St., between Amelia & Lewis, 2 doors down from the library.This is Eileen’s, at the other end of Caroline St…

Just doing a little housekeeping, cleaning out some photo files, when I came across a few more photos, mostly textures, that I’ve been saving. I realize these may be of interest to no one but myself, but I do it as a public service, for the person de…

I’m not as outdoorsy a girl as all of these woods walks would imply, but last week we had a power outage that kicked me off the computer for the afternoon, abruptly ending the workday. My husband suggested a walk that starts right outside our back d…

The Lewis Store, on the corner of Lewis and Caroline Sts., was constructed in 1749 and is considered one of the oldest surviving retail buildings in America. It was renovated in 2002 by the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, for use as their office an…