Big Update. … AKA… I thought I already updated this blog several times.. and I didn’t.

I didn’t realize that this part of the blog hasn’t been updated in so long… so… let’s see… we’ll start off with some scenery of downtown…

So… you can see… Staunton is a very photogenic town… there are plenty of good looking old buildings… and lots of good spots to walk around..

My personal favorite, when Virginia drags me kicking and screaming out for a walk, is to go downtown to walk around. This is because the downtown is littered with cool little places to go grab a beer. So, walk for a few blocks…. stop in to the local Irish Pub for a beer… walk a bit more.. drop by a beer garden… walk a bit more…. what’s that you say? A free wine tasting? Well then.. we’ll be right in.

Also, we decided to try to take in some local fun in the area…. so, the above picture is from our short foray to the Churchville carnival. It was…. … … … interesting. Of course we didn’t grab the best parking.. and it started to rain as we were walking around… so we had to hide under the BINGO tent for a little while. That’s one drawback of hauling around the big camera all of the time.. it doesn’t like the weather, and it doesn’t stow easily when the bad weather does come…. I need to get my little camera back from my mom.. Anyhow… the carnival…. The carnival was a big change for us, because we haven’t been to a carnival back in this area for a long time. As far as carnivals in Southwest Virginia go, this one was nothing amazingly odd. However when you’re used to “Fairs” and whatnot in Boone that are full of the upper middle class folks that can actually afford to live in Boone, and their children in their outfits that make them look like they fell out of the J-Crew catalog….  the missing teeth, Gravedigger Monster Truck T-Shirts (With sleeves ripped off), and Confederate Flag hats of Southwest Virginia are a bit of a change….

Now… another scenic part of Staunton….

 

Purty ain’t it? Ok… one more from this location…

Yeah… it’s a cemetery. Specifically, it’s the Thornrose Cemetery here in Staunton. The place is HUGE.  We’ve gone here to walk around for a little bit…. it’s good for about an hour’s worth of walking if you take all of the various little paths around… and there’s some interesting stuff to see… some very old gravestones… a lot of civil war monuments…. I need to find out more about this place at some point… also, the clouds around here have been crazy lately… I don’t know what the deal is… but it’s like I haven’t seen clouds for years… the clouds around here tend to amaze me on a near daily basis.

This isn’t so much a cloud shot… or related to what I was talking about… but… it’s a shot of one of the downtown theaters…. there are two of them downtown… both are pretty old and historic….