CONTINUING OUR TIME WITH BLOGGING FRIENDS

(photo found online)

This is a continuation of our time with blogging friends Dorothy and Pat of The Frog and the Penguin.  After picking them up from their hotel, we headed to Middleburg and had lunch at Common Grounds. This has been our go-to place when we are in Middleburg, where we usually get a sandwich for lunch.  I forgot to take a photo of it but here is the menu.  Their website says it is under construction but they do have a Facebook page here.  

My sandwich was the Mosby: Black Forest Ham, Gruyer, Honey Mustard on a Jalapeno Cheddar Roll.  I have had it before and it is always excellent.  I didn't take note of what anyone else ordered as we were too busy chatting, but everyone seemed to enjoy their lunch.  

Most of the photos in my last post were either taken inside or out front of this place. After lunch we decided to take a walk around town, going down on one side of the street, and later walking back on the other side.  There are lots of shop windows to look in....

and this little lady was begging for me to take her home and add her to my collection, but I told her that though she was really lovely in her pretty pink frock and hat, I am trying to be good.  Me being a teddy bear lover since childhood, and a lover of costume, I felt the pull.  Where teddy bears are concerned, I have always stayed in touch with my inner child and am a bit weak-willed.  I stayed strong today and waved goodbye.  I just kept looking for the pretty flowers, and I found plenty.

Many pretty flowers which 'woman with camera' - in this case my iPhone - had to stop and take photos of.  What else is there to say except here are those pretty flowers?   

Dorothy and Pat, Gregg and I talked as we walked.

We stopped to say hello to this handsome chap.  He was in the front of an ice-cream shop where we got our dessert.  It was a really neat place and I think it deserves its own post, so more of that later.

We also found two fun shops to go into, the town's Christmas shop and a wonderful antique store. I admired an old grandfather clock in the second store.  It's not only teddy bears that I love.  It was a beautiful piece and Gregg pointed out with amusement that I needed to add another zero onto the price I gave him. When he asked how much it was and I told him, he did a double-take and looked for himself.  I really need to put my reading specs on when I look around these places.  Some things just look too good to be true.

Sorry I cut most of you off Dorothy and Pat, but I was also trying to get the shop into frame, and give you a sense of what the place looked like for your memory book.

It was time to move on and Gregg took us through pretty countryside on the way back to the hotel.  These three horses were enjoying the shade.

Not a very good photo but as I like to say, it's a memory, especially of our time with Dorothy and Pat.  

We went inside their hotel, sat down in the lounge area with a cup of coffee.  Chatted some more until it was time to go our separate ways.  Hopefully it won't be as long before we see each other again, as I am sure we will see each other again on one or the other's road trip.  

We had a great time getting together.  Thank you  to our dear friends from The Frog and the Penguin.  Happy travels as you head home.