Historic Yorktown
Written by admin on June 22nd, 2009This morning I want to share a few more pictures from our Yorktown trip. This part of our trip is from walking through Historic Yorktown where there are quite a few homes and buildings dating from the 1700s. They survived the Battle at Yorktown and now many of them are private residences. Can you imagine living in waterfront Historic Yorktown?
I noticed this wonderful backyard garden. Oh, I wanted to just go back there and sit down and take it all in.
The brick, the shutters, the flowers! Isn’t this just a 10 on the adorable scale?
If you ever wanted a pretty neighborhood in which to walk, this is it. I don’t think I would ever tire of walking and remembering things I’ve learned about our country’s history. There would be NO excuse for not getting my exercise if I lived here.
We noticed these purple flowerheads all over the place. My sister and I wondered about them. We recognized them as being in the onion family, but we weren’t sure what kind. A local told us that they were the Yorktown onions, as in THE Yorktown onions. You know I want to find out more about them and buy some seeds or a plant or two to have some here in my own yard!
These onions are exceptionally pretty growing in this large expanse of yard with the old white building and fence as a backdrop.
I’m looking forward to putting our pictures into our school notebook and doing some sketching from one of these pictures. Soon… Today is a work day so it’ll have to wait until at least tomorrow.
As an aside, that’s one of the hardest things about working. I loved my trip last week so much, and I would not trade the time with my sister for anything, but I got in Thursday evening, had to get straight to my desk for Friday and again Saturday. Friday is an extra long day because we have karate on Friday nights. Sunday of course was our day for our church meeting and basically just a family day, so the house had become void of groceries, I’m still not totally unpacked, and it will be tomorrow before I can breathe a sigh of relief and get my life in order again! We’ll be jumping on some spelling lessons this week as well, so I know my days off will FLY!
This makes me want a picket fence somewhere in my yard. I know the perfect place! Around my vegetable garden in the backyard. I wonder if big furry man is up to it? Maybe if I start building it by myself he’ll feel sorry for me and pitch in. Let’s think about that for a bit, shall we?
Beautiful! I wish I had had more time, but I am planning to go back. It really takes a couple of days or so to go through Yorktown and gather up all the details, like the owners’ names of the original homes in historic Yorktown and who they were and how they contributed to the war efforts. (For example, The Moore House.)
Here is the beautiful view from Historic Yorktown.
The girls ran and ran and ran. I finally got Michaela to run back my way for a picture, but she was poised to run off again and catch up with her cousin.
The day was a bit gray so the pictures aren’t as bright as they could be, but I actually think we had perfect walking weather — not too hot and a nice breeze to keep us cool as we explored and walked and talked.
More later.
Happy Monday!
Lynn
Today’s Quote:
“Every path hath a puddle.” ~George Herbert
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Dear Lynn,
What a beautiful place; how nice that it’s still around after all these years. The onions do look tempting. Wouldn’t it be fun to have an allium garden with all different types in it? And a full-time gardener, of course.
I hope you’re able to catch up on things today. Vacations are wonderful things, but we seem to pay for them on our return, don’t we? The memories will last a lifetime, though, and the running behind won’t.
Love,
Marqueta
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Gorgeous!!
Glad you had fun…we had almost all rain here..alomst all weekend!
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Oh Lynn, I loved all the tiny little window panes in that one house. The whole area is just lovely.. I can’t imagine living in such a beautiful spot♥
Thanks so much for sharing, dear.
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Hey Lynn!!!
I just had to leave you a note. I’m so happy you came up for a visit. I miss having you close by. We’ll have to do it again soon.
Love, Andee
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Hi Lynn,
I live near Yorktown and it is slowly becoming one of my favorite places to go. I actually display my art there at Yorktown Market Days which is every Saturday. It looks like you pretty much saw everything there!
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Marqueta, I am so glad some of the homes are still there. Can you imagine living in one? Wow.
Thanks, Kate!
Diane, I like the little panes too. Such a pretty place.
Andee, we hope to come back and do the same thing sometime in the not-too-distant future. Love you.
Lisa, I thought Yorktown was absolutely gorgeous. I visited your blog. Your artwork is very nice. I wish you much success with it! Thank you so much for leaving a comment.
Lynn