“Grazing, Shadowing and Silhouetting” are a few of the terms that we use at Nancy B’s House of Lights to create effects by utilizing landscape lighting. They each have a positive effect and help to dramatize an interesting shaped object, whether it is a tree, a statue or the exterior of your home. Creating a focal point is most accomplished by uplighting. Wall washing is a technique that refers to … [Read more...]
Healthy Oven Fried Chicken
Fried chicken! There, I’ve said it and now, if you’re like me, once the thought of succulent, crispy hot and oozing-with-goodness fried chicken gets in your mind – it’s over. You simply must have fried chicken for dinner. Probably that night. Fried chicken is one of the tastiest dishes of all, but it’s an artery clog waiting to happen. Unless you can make do with one piece of fried chicken, … [Read more...]
Scarlet Tanagers
It’s been a good spring for local birders. Leah Leffler and I both had Indigo Buntings pay us a visit. In fact, she still has them. I also had a flock of Cedar Waxwings stop by for a birdbath and Sue Overton saw a rare Blue Grosbeak at her feeder in Waynesboro. Another bird-watching friend, Sherman Shifflett recently saw a Scarlet Tanager perched in a nearby pine tree beside his house in Louisa. … [Read more...]
Road Trip to Springdale Gardens
We have a couple small ponds in our back yard. One, the goldfish pond, is home to 8 ordinary goldfish. Unlike the expensive species, these goldfish cost 10 cents each and will probably live forever. Nancy enjoys feeding them while I’m thinking they would make really good bait. Our other impoundment is a lily garden, which occasionally hosts a frog or two, depending on how hungry the local garter … [Read more...]
Drum and Cobia Bite Underway
The cobia season is open in Virginia and anglers are catching. Both chumming and sight casting tactics are working. Anglers sight-fishing for cobia are also seeing large schools of red drum. Even prior to the season opening, numerous trophy cobia release citations were registered. Remember all anglers, captains and guides fishing for cobia must obtain a Recreational Cobia Permit from … [Read more...]
Trout Fishing Looking Good
All the rain has made for poor conditions recently, with many trout streams out of their banks, but prospects look good for June and July. Rivers like the Jackson, Bull Pasture and the Tye still have lots of holdover fish, they well dispersed and anglers will have summer opportunities where few usually exist. The Rivers The upper James, Shenandoah and Rappahannock are currently … [Read more...]
Lewisburg Church Ladies
(This is the eighth in a series of articles about growing up in Lewisburg, West Virginia, perhaps the greatest town and in the best time to grow up that a young man could ever ask for.) The first Easter Sunday after I moved from Beckley to Lewisburg, it snowed. Our family entered Old Stone Church in our summer best, having to knock off the snow from our shoes. I wore a blue seersucker … [Read more...]
Feeding The Birds
Our first nest of bluebirds finally hatched and fledged. It seems like the hen had been on the nest and tending to babies forever, but it was probably just a month in all. We were disappointed that only one baby bluebird survived. We think there were two that fledged, but now it’s one. This “only child” bluebird, however, will likely be the fattest bluebird chick on the planet. I have been loading … [Read more...]
Bodo’s: A Charlottesville Institution
When an alumnus of the University of Virginia returns to grounds, one of the first things he or she will do is find the nearest Bodo’s and get a bagel fix. Bodo’s is quite simply a Charlottesville institution. Brian Fox, a New England escapee, founded Bodo’s in 1986. At that time, bagels were known as a northern dish. Only the Yanks ate the odd shaped bakery items and usually with something … [Read more...]
Old Trail Wants You!
Old Trail Golf Club has made an appeal to all members of the Virginia State Golf Association to come play their course. With a valid VSGA card in hand, players can tee it up at the beautiful layout at the foothills of the Blue Ridge for just $42. This includes a cart, but is only valid on Mondays through Thursdays after 11 AM. The offer expires June 30, so there are still six weeks or so to take … [Read more...]
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