– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Vale United Methodist Church For today’s and Wednesday’s posts we are going to take a look at two of the older churches close to where I live. We will start with with a historic white clapboard methodist church which remained unchanged for 60 years and then move on a couple of miles down the road to...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Great Rhododendron (Rhododendron maximim) The Great Rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) is a member of the Ericaceae or Heath family. It is an erect woody shrub which can grow to more that 20-feet tall. The leaves are alternate, evergreen and leathery with a smooth upper surface and hairy beneath. They grow...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Philipsburg Manor In the last post we visited Washington Irving’s Sunnyside. The original farmhouse was part of Philipsburg Manor, which we will now take a look at. Frederick Philipse was born in Friesland, Holland in 1626 (his Dutch name was Vredryck Flypsen). He immigrated to New York, then New...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Washington Irving’s Sunnyside Over the last few weekends I have been reprocessing some of my older images using Lightroom 4. I am in awe at the additional details and amazing clarity that can be drawn from the original RAW files. Its not just the newer files which benefit from the wonderful processing...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Viper’s Bugloss (Echium vulgare) Viper’s Bugloss (Echium vulgare), also known as blue devil, blue thistle or blueweed, is a member of the Boraginaceae or Forget-Me-Not family. The name comes from the use of the plant root in ancient times as a treatment for snake or viper bites. The wildflower is a...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation Historic St. Mary’s City has recreated a tobacco plantation on land once owned by Daniel Clocker. Clocker was a carpenter and indentured servant to Thomas Cornwallis, who arrived in Maryland in 1636. Though poor and illiterate, Clocker by 1660 had acquired 200 acres of land,...
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