Can I just start by saying I love baseball? Possibly no one was more excited when they heard that Loudoun was getting its own team than me (yeah, right!). Things have taken some time to get to this point (nearly 10 years by all accounts), but we’re closer than ever. And if Sunday’s inaugural Loudoun Hounds FanFest is any indication, there is a great demand...
On this date, 55 years ago, Elvis Presley recorded “Heartbreak Hotel.” I’m dedicating today’s post in honor of that occasion. It is an image of the Red Fox Inn in historic Middleburg, which certainly wouldn’t be confused with the Heartbreak Hotel, but then again, Virginia is for Lovers! And love sometimes breaks your heart…. But just around the corner of the weekend is Valentine’s...
We’re lucky here in Virginia in that we truly have four seasons. And boy, has mother nature reminded us over the past two years that winter is one of them. And we’ve enjoyed it – building snowmen, taking pics of the new fallen snow, getting exercise by shoveling, and shoveling, and shoveling. But that doesn’t mean we don’t long for warmer, better weather. And since...
On April 14, 1908, Nick Carter, a five-foot-eight, 140 pound, 28 year old, right-handed pitcher stepped to the mound to make his major league debut for the Philadelphia Athetics. The game pitted the A’s against the New York Yankees in their immense Hilltop Park in the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City. Unfortunately, the Athletics lost the game. Carter’s career would last just...
The inagural Virginia Wine Country Half Marathon will be held on June 4, 2011 in Loudoun, Virginia: DC’s Wine Country. This video begins at Breaux Vineyards, then continues down scenic byways, around the historic town of Hillsboro, and finishes 13.1 miles later at Doukenie Winery. Sorry about the shakiness in the middle – about 1 mile of the course is on gravel. I recorded this...