NEABSCO CREEK BOARDWALK - FIVE YEARS SINCE OUR LAST VISIT - PART 3

I found this post I had been working on, and forgotten until now. The last few photos from Neabsco a few weeks ago, and of a town we drive through on the way home. I have links and if you would like to know more, you can click on their names.

Common Elderberry

Chinese Bush Clover

Allegheny Blackberry

Common Ragweed

Red Clover

That's all for the plants from that day. The others I took on our way home.

We drove through the town of Clifton. There are historical signs outside of many of the homes. The place was quite crowded as there had been a race that day and everyone was finishing up. Cars were parked all up and down the main road. I took a couple of photos of what I could between cars. The photo above is of the Wright House, built in 1941 by a gangster(?) Gangster’s name was not mentioned on the sign and I got my information from this website. Local craftsmen used stone mined from a quarry near Robey's Farm on Chapel road. the house featured the first full indoor bathroom in town.  

I remember one of the homes had a connection to The Titanic. I mentioned it in a Halloween post here. It will show you the picture of their house with information.  It said: "Huckbill 1902 - built by H. Longley.  Oscar Woody, who was a member of the railroad and sea postal services, bought the house in 1910. He was on duty on board the Titanic when she went down on his 41st birthday. He was buried at sea on April 24th, 1912."  His is quite a story and you can read it at this link.

You can see my other posts on Clifton as we have driven through it and visited many times. It is a fun place to take visitors too. You can click here to weave through them. I took photos of the historical markers in front of several homes.

Thanks for looking, and 

enjoy your day.

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO FIND WHILE DRIVING AROUND

 

This time it was a fence-line of friendly snowmen waving.

We also drove by this house not too far away from home. The man had just finished putting up his decorations. We were going by slowly to take a look, and as he turned round to smile I thanked him and told him how much we enjoy his decorations, how festive they were. His smile got bigger as he said thank you back. I always appreciate seeing these festive homes and all the hard work that goes into them. One of these nights we will be driving around the neighborhood to take more photos.   

Hope they give you a smile.  

A FEW MORE PHOTOS TAKEN IN CLIFTON, VA

There is a history of Clifton at this website.

I didn't share the horses we found in my last post.  We saw them when we took a ride off one of the roads from the main street.

Thinking the road was going to loop back around, it came to a dead-end, and was a private road.  We turned back and soon found a parking spot on the side of the road in town.  

This is the Quigg House, where we found our happy dog in my last post.

Here's a fuzzy picture I managed to get of our happy dog.  She was doing the wriggly, happy dance.  I barely got her in frame and was happy she didn't totally blur out in this one.  I had several blurs.  Such a sweety!

This house is one of my favorites.  

It also has a lovely courtyard.  (Most of these historical houses are private homes.)

This is a very quaint little town with a history. If you live here you are used to people reading those markers and taking photos of your home.  There are a lot more tourists here in the warmer months.  Today it was still very busy with people walking up and down, looking at the shops, going into the restaurants and enjoying these lovely historical homes.  There are also home tours a couple of times in the year.  I went on one years ago.

There are picket fences in front of every home.  

I missed the marker on this one.

This is the Clifton Baptist Church, replacing the one room church that was on this site, in 1910.  

I found one bit of history online as I missed the marker.  It read: "In 1876 George W. Tillet, along with other area men who served with Mosby's Rangers during the Civil War, formed a Baptist Church with services held in his home.  Subsequently they built a one-room church on this site in 1877, which was replaced by the present church in 1910.

That's it for Clifton for a while.  We will probably go back in the springtime.

If you would like to see other visits we have made, you can click on the "Clifton_VA_Oldtown" label below this post.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Last week we took a trip into Clifton for a walk around town.  We visit at least a couple of times a year.  Several of the historical homes were decorated for Halloween.

We have been enjoying this cute cow for several years now. This is the first time I have seen her at this time of the year.

This is the entrance to Peterson's Ice-Cream Depot.  You walk up that alley, turn left at the far end, and there is a kiosk where you can order all kinds of ice-cream, plus.  A place we have been to and enjoyed several times.

I didn't know they went to all this trouble to decorate for Halloween.  

The homes in Clifton have historical markers in the front. They give a short history of the people who lived in them.  We have read every one over the years, but it's long enough between visits that we forget.  There is a list here of all the houses, and if you click on the thumbnail, it will give you a short history of that particular place.

Here you can see we met one of the residents, the four-legged kind.  When a dog comes up to the fence with a bone in its mouth it makes you a bit wary.  But it didn't take long for us to realize that this sweet little darling was only interested in wagging her tail, to let us know how happy she was with her bone.  She was adorable!  The three of us made friends and she had enough scratches and ear rubs to last her for quite a while.

A closer view of the marker shown above.

We walked across the road and saw that one of the witches had crash-landed in a tree.  These witches need to be more careful, or at least ease off on that rum punch they mix in their witches brew.  

I see a lot of them in the trees at this time of the year.  I keep telling them this very important message, don't drink and drive, even if it is while riding a broomstick!

I was impressed with all the decorations.   

It certainly puts a smile on the faces of little kids and big kids alike, and especially those of us who like to take photos.

In between looking at all the Halloween decorations, we continue to read the historical markers in front of each home.

The man who lived in this house went down on the Titanic.

This is the Harris House.

The Kincheloe House

I will leave you with the two pretty dogs we came across.

Oh the joy!

Another pretty dog, a bigger one.

And a few pics I played with in Paint Shop Pro.

Have a safe and Happy Halloween and if you are driving, watch out for all the Trick or Treaters tonight.  And for the Witches, if you are flying your broom stick, no drinking while driving.