Surrounded by beauty

"Beauty is everywhere, waiting
for eyes to gaze on it."
(Author unknown)




Deer, a rainbow, and a beautiful sunset, all viewed one July evening from a friend's porch in Middleburg.

Leafster

"All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all."
(Cecil F. Alexander)





My great-grandson getting acquainted with a katydid he named Leafster.  

Ketoctin Church: Valley View Trail

Ketoctin Church, founded in 1751, is one of Loudoun's oldest churches.  Up until now they have had no running water, but are in the process of building a bathroom and installing plumbing.


























































At the top of the hill, Purcellville water treatment facility, with a view of Loudoun Valley and the Bull Run and Blue Ridge Mountains.