Cape Charles and it's Golden Hour

Golden hour.  A time not to be missed when I am visiting the beach. 

A magical time.  My golden moment.  Very short window of time, ever changing.

Water glistens

 Shimmers

Our Golden Moments

I took this with my phone camera, so it's not really a sharp picture, but the moon and the planet can be seen on this clear evening with a home across street from where we were staying.

Happy Sunday Everyone, Betsy💖🙏

 Hoping Grandchildren in Hawaii will be able to go with us next trip.  Love all of our grands.  One lives away in West Va. and hope he and his little one will be able to come with us sometime too.  

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Cape Charles days away photos

 Cape Charles 

The sweetest and best little beach town as far as I am concerned in Virginia. Northampton Virginia.

On the East coast, Cape Charles has one of the largest concentration of Late Victorian homes.  Built between 1885 and 1920

A short distance for us to the beach.  We stayed in a house in the historical town.

A golf cart or "buggy" as grand daughter Genevieve calls it.  Took us the couple short blocks to the beach.  So much fun using it especially in the cooler evening for shopping or getting dinner and of course ice cream after ward

Creamy good shaved ice.  No high fructose syrup and creamy natural flavors especially the banana.

Grandgirls mom got to spend a night with us.   Found shells on the beach

Dinner out in town.    Great food and atmosphere.

Do not want to start too late to get dinner as it's a small town and things close early like the shops and this place dinner is over at 9 p.m.  Wanna get in by 8:00.  Sounds late but after a long day and beach sand that needs to be washed off, then dressed.  We were always heading out late. 

Miranda and girls deciding on shrimp and fish.

Can tell the age of this place by the old wavy glass in the window.

Where we stayed in town.  Cape Utopia is what our beach house is called.

I have more to share of the home we stayed and some pretty sunsets.

Til later, Betsy

Saturday night rain and Sunday drive

Quite a bit of rain came in on Saturday night.

The little slash of a creek was over loaded and came close to the large azalea in the yard.  Never gets much closer and the driveway is on higher ground so not much to worry about there.  

Rain stopped, water subsided quickly. 

Next day, our Sunday drive to anywhere, same route it seems when we have no particular place in mind to go.  Bar be que exchange in Gordonsville Va. is where we stop if hungry going through this area.  There was a long line and we didn't want to wait.

L&J's Bar be que, a caterer in Gordonsville Va was set up for dinner at the Gordonsville Antique Mall.  We stopped and had a great meal, so delicious!  Will stop here again coming into the area for sure. 

Steve had ribs 

I had the bar be que and we shared the potato salad which was just a healthy serving and couldn't eat all of it. 

Great smoked baked beans!

Good to see people out enjoying themselves and lots of smiles.

Into the sunset back home. 

Ah yes, our rainbow right as we turn into the road to our neighborhood.

Til next time, Betsy

 

Conduit curtain rods

Finished my rods on porch finally.  I purchased conduit pipe and some large cup hooks to hang them by.    Much cheaper than purchasing metal curtain rods.  I just wanted something easy to go up and this was.  I purchased the little caps for the ends and to that I got a deal on Styrofoam balls, sprayed them silver, then gouged the center out to put the cap ends into. 

Recent ride to Waynesboro the last week in July  just to get out and see some pretty Va. countryside.  We took the back roads this time for easy on the eyes scenery.   Hardly any traffic.   

A ride through Fork Union, an unincorporated community in Fluvanna county. 

Fork Union  is one of the leading U.S. college preparatory military boarding schools for boys 7 - 12 grade.

 Black eyed Susan growing along a wall in  Scottsville Va. 

Lunch in Waynesboro at the Red River Burger Bar

Lighter fare is served but not having breakfast and lunch, since this was after two o'clock, we were hungry.  No dinner for us later.  Just a small snack.  

First, Spring rolls with a snappy little sauce drizzled on top. 

Oh yes, we brought half of it home.  Delicious food.   Made to order.  

Upon leaving the area and noticing the hanging pots from the street lights.  Very pretty.

Back at home, the Crepe Myrtles are blooming really well this year.  They have never bloomed this pretty.  The color is even darker.  Maybe they like the dry, hotter days we have had this Summer. 

A few days ago we cooked Salmon on the grill, served with fresh salsa.  Really enjoying cooking on the Green Egg, ours is the mini max.  Plenty big for us.  

Til next time, Betsy