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.

GOOD FENCES

Visiting the historical part of Clifton, Virginia recently, I took a lot of fence photos for Theresa's Good Fences.  These were from the Clifton Baptist Church on Main Street.  

The history of the village of Clifton can be found here.  I will have more photos soon.

Thank you for the fun Theresa.  

You can see more fences if you click on the button below.

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.