Burgandy and Gold

Redskins football territory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join Today" Flowers # 168 to see more amazing scenery.

And join me Nov. 6 from 4-9 PM EST on a live web stream as I produce the 17th annual Telethon for the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria.  

 

 

Since 1986, The Scholarship Fund of Alexandria has provided financial aid advising to thousands of Alexandria students and their families and awarded scholarships with a total value over $8 million to more than 3,400 deserving T.C. Williams graduates.  Each one has a story to tell of dreams pursued, challenges met, and social contributions made.  Over the last 25 years the Fund has provided $3 million dollars in aid to T.C. Williams students going on to higher education.

Music from our main stage and stories of some amazing students.

In The Halloween Spirit

On the Outer Banks you find little family grave yards near the homesteads.  Some of the stones really tell a story you'd like to know more about.  The close death dates of several children...an epidemic of some kind, or an accident?  We'll never know.  Here's a tour of family resting places I've seen while on vacation on Oracoke Island, NC.  Every old family home seems to have one.

 

 Then there is the British Cemetery.

 They are not close to home like the others, but they are well cared for.

The Idea KId

Every Halloween it is a new challenge.  It was easy before they could talk.  RR engineers in Oshkoshs and kerchiefs, construction workers in hardhats riding toy trucks.  Then we grew up and got our own ideas.

We've been fish.

 

 

Ever popular and varied Star Wars characters:   Luke and R2D2,  Ewok, Darth Vader

An easy runaway boy (but with a "pirate shirt" from a museum where he had me take the measurements of a role playing costume.)

An ice cream ball rolling down the street and an empty cone (mom)

A Smart Car

Harry and company

Now a Tarantula.

 

 

It involves a skateboard and shooting string.

 I think I convinced him walking upright was a better bet for candy carrying.

Thank goodness for Harry.

Then there were the good old days as shown in this old print from an estate sale.

 Happy Halloween.