This morning, Ben laid down the law about campy supermarkets: "No one is ever going to look at this blog again!" Lessons learned...
And, good news, we actually have something else to talk about: spring! Is it even possible to be feeling spring the first week of February?
Note as examples of spring the 60+ degree weather, the strong sunlight, and this tree outside of Asian Express (aka The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Charlottesville As Far As Ben & Meg Are Concerned). What a glorious blue sky!
We also have history to discuss. We're not particularly fond of our county name (oddly reminiscent as it is of the Rural Juror) and can't really say it in that slopping drawl of the natives. We are pleased as punch to know we live in what was originally Goochland County, much more pleasing to the tongue.
The previously mentioned historic Court Square was filled with locally-made brick buildings and muddied by Confederate statues. We learned a lot from our self-guided walking tour, though, about the relatively artificial placement of the town in the late eighteenth century (it was an uninhabited location chosen as the seat for the county court as a mid-point between Richmond and the Shenandoah range, and merchants came in the early nineteenth century).
It was the perfect Goochland County location for a hinting spring afternoon's stroll, plenty of red brick, bright sun, kids and dogs. Just squint past the monuments and focus on the budding trees.
The previously mentioned historic Court Square was filled with locally-made brick buildings and muddied by Confederate statues. We learned a lot from our self-guided walking tour, though, about the relatively artificial placement of the town in the late eighteenth century (it was an uninhabited location chosen as the seat for the county court as a mid-point between Richmond and the Shenandoah range, and merchants came in the early nineteenth century).
It was the perfect Goochland County location for a hinting spring afternoon's stroll, plenty of red brick, bright sun, kids and dogs. Just squint past the monuments and focus on the budding trees.
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It certainly looks like Spring is coming to your part of the Commonwealth. Enjoy it. I'll expect to see photos of trees in full blossom soon. Here in Pennsylvania (another fine Commonwealth), we're getting some warmer weather, too, for which I am glad.
ReplyDelete"Albemarle" doesn't look that tongue-twisty, but I've never heard it said by a native Virginian. I must say, I would find "Goochland" much more hilarious.