The trip...

5 days in the South of France

12 day Mediterranean Cruise

4 days in Venice

don't hate.

A moment of Zen

White's Ferry

We live in a part of VA that has no bridge across the Potomac River. You have to go 40 miles north, or 40 miles south to get into Maryland.

However - this is White's Ferry.

When I first heard of White's Ferry, I envisioned a 300 car Ferry and when I came around the bend and saw this... my response was something like.... Oh hell no, I'm not getting on that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1738mXTOMok

It's the only Ferry left on the Potomac River, and the coast guard has tried to shut it down. It's basically a barge that they pull by cable across the water.

Oh yeah in that video it's summer and green, but look at it in the winter, and since the water is higher it takes longer in the winter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p67fW7dIsMA

It's not so bad, and it is very pretty in the summer.

The mid 1800's

War Recruiting
Fire Fighting
Eating... lard

Harpers Ferry - with the Ingstads

Roger's family is in town, and yes again we went to Harpers Ferry.

Here are some different pictures from the town. You can find 3 other visits of Harpers Ferry in the blog list.

The fence - finished

The fence was stained yesterday. It looks good.

The legal battle with the fence is not over, but we decided it needed to be done before winter.

1st Day at HGS

I started at Human Genome Sciences today - its good.

The company is much bigger than I realized, almost 900 people.

It's a beautiful building of architectural art. I was given a large office space with a great view, and since the windows are tinted - the sun isn't killing me.

I'm in the very far right hand corner on the second floor.

--pointing --those windows riiggghhht ... there.

The rollercoaster commute

A couple of miles near the Potomac River is really pretty. This is the 2 peaceful minutes of my commute. I thought I would share with you the the ride, however it turned into a video that will make you think you are crazy. If you watch it till the end, you've will be wondering what you took that is messing with your mind...

Or is it just me?

Beware, and turn the sound down - the wind is loud.

Destructive Caterpillars

Do all caterpillars turn into butterfly's?

Soooo... I was outside last night, and saw all of these hanging off the trees. I thought .... wow why are there so many little dead pieces of the pine tree hanging?

I went over to take a closer look - I squeezed one and got the "willies" went it started moving!

Look at this thing - it's just laying around in its cocoon eating my tree. They ate more than 1/2 the leaves off my apple tree.

When you touch them they hide in their cocoons, and close up.

They need to go away - maybe if Ripley hadn't have killed all the new baby birds, they'd eat them. See what happens when the food chain is disrupted.

Not until you're 42...

When I was little and wanted to do something... my mother always told me "NOT UNTIL YOU ARE 42!!"

Strangely enough I finished a book today called "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". I really didn't like the book, not sure I really understood the plot - however

In the book a very special computer gives the answer to life

.... the answer it gave? 42

Very strange