The picket fence and gate are almost covered with snow. Photo by SWAC Daughter.SWAC Husband clears 2 feet of snow off deck.
The snow is knee [...]
The picket fence and gate are almost covered with snow. Photo by SWAC Daughter.
The picket fence and gate are almost covered with snow. Photo by SWAC Daughter.
Outside the John Doe hell hole. Official Doe estimate: 12 inches as of 9 a.m. Saturday, with officials estimating anothe 5-8 inches. Yikes! Saturday night Hold ‘em tourney might get cancelled!
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At midnight the snow measured 12.5 inches on the deck.
The banner in front of our house says it all. Photo was taken before the snow started.
Washington, D.C. - Citizens protest government health care bill.I can pick up Swedish pretty easily, Elin. Just sayin’:
Elin Nordegren, the wife of Tiger Woods, will seek a divorce, ABC News.com is reporting.
A source close to Nordegren told the Web site on Wednesday that a “divorce is 100 percent on.”
Nordegren was recently photographed pumping gas without her [...]

You know, I'm really beginning to suspect that the White House photographer corps secretly hates the Obama family.
Take this picture, for example: This is an event which, under any circumstances, should be a warm and caring event. And yet, when Samantha Appleton went through her photos to find' [...]
Thank you, Dr. John Dunlap of Waynesboro.
In viewing this photo, I am reminded of an ancient concept from a Physics class long ago called the "Observer Effect."
Basically, the idea is that there are things which cannot be measured without being altered. Which invalidates, to a certain extent, the measurement taken.
Or, looking at the [...]
Somebody really doesn't like Pakistan:
Activists carry devil masks representing the supporters of Pakistan in the 1971 war, during Independence Day rally, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Bangladesh celebrated its 38th Independence Day today. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
Far be it from me to suggest that Pakistan's done anything to' [...]
Lanterns in Colonial Williamsburg used to have flame-shaped electrical bulbs. All have now been replaced with these polically correct, ridiculous-looking mercury twisty bulbs.
You'd better watch out for the 2009 Christmas Carnival, that is.
I think this shot, taken by White House photographer Pete Souza, illustrates very succinctly the Obama Administration's relationship to Old Europe. And what better way to point that out than by providing detail views of two very particular areas of the frame.
On the left, we see someone who' [...]
Our SWAC bloggers gathered Thursday for dinner and enjoyable conversation.
I'll take our group over those Wisconsin guys.
Protest. "Right-wing" protest.
Demonstrator. "Right-wing" activist.
Demonstrators. "Right-wing" demonstrators.
Despite the fact that the former category of photos more closely resembles a "riot" than the images of groups toting signs around in streets that the word "protest" is supposed to evoke, we are assured that we are [...]
SWAC "StrictlyVa" bloggers paused in the middle of animated conversation during dinner Thursday night at the Depot Grille as our waiter, Bill, snapped this photo.
Here are some photos from last Saturday at Richmond's Maymont Park. Daylight tours of the Maymont House decorated for a Victorian Christmas are still available. Tickets for Maymont by Moonlight have apparently sold out, though a waiting list is available.