Out and About in Virginia

I found a groupon to visit the home of George Mason, a famous Virginian during the era of the Revolutionary War and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

 A view of the front of the mansion, which was completed in 1759.

 This view is from the back door, and the path leads to the Potomac River.

I thought the wall paper was pretty bold, but is true to the era of the 1700's.

 George Mason penned the Virginia Bill of Rights, which was later used as a type for the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

 This was taken upstairs overlooking the stairway. I'm not sure what Kent is taking a picture of.

 I thought this was cool, showing that George Mason was friends with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Patrick Henry, all Virginians.

This is the back view of the house.

 On the last weekend of October Kent and I took an overnight trip to the western part of Virginia.

 We went to see Crabtree Falls, a waterfall in the George Washington National Forest.

 You can see that the fall colors were in full swing.

I thought we had a picture of Kent and I standing in front of this sign, but I couldn't find it.

 Here are a few photos of the fall colors as we drove along.

 We spent the night at the Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Virginia.

 This was our view out our hotel window.

 This is the ballroom.

 The comfortable front "porch."

 The fall colors weren't quite as vibrant as they were two years ago when we stayed at the Homestead.

 This waterfall is called Falling Springs Falls.

 We're still terrible at taking selfies, but we tried!

Our last stop was at Natural Chimneys state park, very close to the West Virginia border.

 They're natural rock formations that look like chimneys.

 When we drove into the park it was very crowded because there was a Halloween party going on in the park.

We didn't stay too long--just looked at the rock formations and headed back towards home.