WELLINGTON PLACE, PART TWO, THE AREA

These were all taken by me on April 24, driving between our

house and the little town of Export that we go through to get

to Laura's or for Carl to get to work. You can go down 66

and turn west on 22, which is a 4-lane road, but they're

working on rebuilding 22 now and it's down to 2 lanes with

construction everywhere. Both Carl and I prefer this

particular back way through the countryside anyway.

I've gotten really fond of the blue house that's just around the corner from us and drive slowly every time

when I go past it.

Just across the road from the blue house is this old wreck of a barn. What I'd like to do is

get a close-up picture of the pear blossoms against the old wood.

This is looking south and is also what lies across the road from the blue house.

Then past the blue house, the road goes through the woods where there are white blossoms here 'n there.

Around the curve here lies that straight stretch through woods that I took a reverse picture of that's on

page one.

I really like this area of fields. I took this out the driver's window of my white car, which shows a

bit in the mirror. I go down and turn left on a road that takes you between this field and the green

one that lies below the line of trees.

Looking out at same field as above

On my right, right where I turn left, is this alpaca farm. You can see two of them up there on the right.

Then on the right, on that road that goes between the two big fields is this old mailbox. I find it

very artistic somehow, the way it just sort of dangles there in the vines. The name on it reads

"S. Over"...which is very appropriate somehow.

On the same road, but on the left just up from the mailbox is this big old hollow tree right up next to the pavement.

Looking back down the road to the hollow tree (center). The mailbox is on the left just

where the road curves to the right.

At the end of the hollow tree road, I make a left on "Italy", which takes me past this nice redbud.

It also takes me past this row of pink magnolias that are starting to fade now. I took this from the

driver's seat, looking out the front passenger window.

This is a neat farm on Italy that the kids like to drive past as it has cows and donkeys, which,

howsomever, do not appear to be in evidence when I took this picture.

Switching back to our immediate environs, I took this as I was driving along the entrance road to our small

housing development. There are pear trees lining both sides, which are now more green than white, though

still pretty. I've deliberately aimed the camera high so as not to get any structures in it. As everything in this

little place is modular, it's all one-story tall and easy, therefore, to do that with. The ones down here closer

to the entrance are smaller, older ones and I don't like the way they look at all so I tend to lift mine eyes

unto the hills.

As I drive uphill through the development on Willie St. (I'm glad I do not live on THAT one!),

Willie deadends and I make a sharp left onto Wellington Place. On my right just before I turn

is a field that slopes up just enough that I can't see the view beyond, so I parked and got out and

walked to its edge and took this picture, which is looking east northeast. There's a big drop off

there.

This is on my left all the way down the one long, flat block that is Wellington Place.

There are several one-story homes below the trees, which are up on a ridge behind them,

but I look at the trees and not the buildings.

They've really begun to leaf out nicely in the last few days.

This is at the very end of Wellington where the ridge is a bit lower and is where I climbed up to get to the edge of the woods.

This was taken from up there right at the edge looking back down at the dead end of Wellington.

And this is the view from there looking directly over the top of my house, almost due south.

This is what you see from there with the woods on your left if you look back down Wellington toward the east.

And this was right behind me. It's not hard to walk there in the woods as there's not terribly much undergrowth.

The mayapples have started to pop their little parasols up. I always enjoy them. They look like

something out of a fairy story.

Back down the hill, I took this standing in my back yard, which is long and narrow and

flat and then drops off.  That's Willie through the trees there. It makes a couple of sharp

curves as it comes up the hill. The one house that's different here is the one directly below

mine and you can see it through the trees. Is one of those dome ones.

This is at the edge of my back yard looking a bit more to the right than the view above this.

Somewhere back in those woods a bit I am told is a small Amish settlement.

I took this from my little front porch looking directly across Wellington. A Marine family lives there and they fly these

two flags all the time.

Things still awaiting planting...

I bought this birdbath in DC when Laura was two. She and I got it together at Sears and I've

taken it with me ever since. The little spireas were here, but the bleeding heart is a clump off my

big and very old one I had back at the other house. The ground was still frozen solid but I

managed to get a chunk of it up anyway. An old fern of mine is just starting to unfurl there on

the right.

And my bubble is in place. The gravel around the front walk was already here so I'm just dealing

with it.

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