When family members live a distance away it's always fun to get together for quality time. Our daughter came for a visit the past few days that thrilled us. She lives in New England. Her son lives with us while he's attending college and it's particularly nice for both of them to visit in person. It's also nice for her Mama and Daddy.
We sometimes have busy visits and I must say this was one of them. Our middle grandson turned fifteen this past week so we all celebrated with him.
We had beautiful weather on Sunday, so we took a long walk on our Heritage Trail.
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| Samuel and his Mom |
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| Rappahannock River |
On Monday we decided to visit Monticello. We all love history in our family and our daughter requested we go visit the home of Thomas Jefferson again. We enjoyed a lovely lunch at Michie Tavern and then drove up the mountain to take the tour of the home of our third president, the author of The Declaration of Independence, Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and the father of The University of Virginia.
Monticello enjoys a lovely view of the valley and into the Blue Ridge mountains.
It was threatening rain but we carried our insurance umbrellas to assure it would stay dry.
The gardens have been planted with vegetables as well as flowers.
Photographs are not allowed inside of Monticello, but the Mulberry Row area can be photographed. These were the slave quarters. The real workers that made Monticello the place it was.
We knew snow was predicted for us during the week, so we wisely visited Monticello before the turn of weather.
We received four inches of heavy lovely snow on the first full day of Spring. This is quite late for us!
Because of the snowstorm our daughter's train was cancelled for her trip home. I can't say we were unhappy about her having to stay another day.
I was happy to be able to pick the daffodils that were lying on the ground today. I really meant to pick them before the snow fell. Most all of our snow has melted and maybe Spring really is on its way.
