I’m here to tell you what the tourism honchos won’t: Fall foliage is disappointing this year.
All in Photos
Longing For Fall Foliage? Too Late.
If there’s one drawback to living in coastal Virginia, besides the clowns in local government, it’s an absence of fall colors.
Ancestors, Part II
Sifting through a box of recently discovered photos of my mother’s family, I find nothing but profoundly unattractive ancestors and eccentricity.
Way Back When: Virginia Beach
These postcards date from the mid-1930s to the 1950s, when oceanfront hotels were graceful three-story inns with wraparound porches. Before long, they’d be demolished to make way for blocky towers of rooms that blotted out the midday sun.
Watch out, Napa.
This stretch of highway may may seem to hold nothing but warehouses and weeds, but apparently this is Virginia's wine country.
Ancestors
I’ve been scouring family photo albums looking for a presentable ancestor from a multitude of jug-eared Irish peasants. Just one.
No One Wants To Look Like A Badger In A Passport Photo
Truthfully, even as a teenager I wasn’t what anyone would call photogenic. In fact, in high school I sat for three sets of senior portraits before I got one that wasn’t too heinous for the yearbook.