A two-lane road leads us through the heart of Bull Run Battlefield Park near Manassas, Virginia. This is a short-cut to a daughter's house.
What a beautiful trip~
Early morning light touches white mist hovering in low areas over tall grass that now graces the rolling hills. It will soon be bailed making the fields ready for another year.
Trees here and there, many along the creek called "Bull Run'"
The area near Bull Run is the location of the famous battle which was fought July 21, 1861, near Manassas, Virginia. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War..
Today, it is peaceful and beautiful.
All is under blue, blue sky...filled with puffy white clouds.
The scene catches one's breathe.
One wonders if our Civil War Soldiers saw the same sight on the last morning of their lives.
Am sure they didn't see the herds of deer that now graze near the tree lines...They sleep in the tall grass, making and leaving tell tell circles. When we find one, I always wonder if they return to sleep there again and again.
I want my camera, but alas, no time to stop and on a mission to baby-sit this day.
The following day, my daughter and I went to near-by Leesburg.
WHY don't I travel with camera? Ahh...but today was with friends and no camera.
Leesburg ~ always make me think of when I first knew of Leesburg.
I remember an old TV show sponsored by Lipton Tea.
I was a little girl and he was seen in black and white on a small TV in our living room.
Are you old enough to remember Arther Godfrey?
He was Mr. TV in the 1950's and as I remember, there was not much else to watch.
I remember he talked extensively about his farm in Leesburg. Virginia with an airstrip for his plane. He took the cameras there to share. He knew he lived in a little piece of heaven.
It would be fun to make a trip to the Court House and find which of the beautiful old houses belonged to him. Why? I don't know. Do I have this kind of time?
HUMMMM
Am going back alone to these places for photos.
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