Mid-October, frost on the gourds, the forest trees shedding their leaves in showers, and all afternoon in the skies above the fort, the change of season arrayed in the drama of the clouds.
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Cold weather coming . . .
Posted in autumn, clouds on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fall comes to the old frontier
Posted in autumn, beans, corn, Indian Summer, pumpkins, Shawnee, squash on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fall on the old Virginia frontier was, above all, a season of preparation against the coming Winter. The foundation of the cabin would be banked against the cold wind with a thick matting of cornstalks and pumpkin vines, or straw if they had it, or even banked with earth. And naturally a substantial stockpile of [...]
Season of mists …
Posted in autumn, spiderwebs on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many will recognise the title as a phrase from Keats’ “To Autumn”, and so it has been here recently, with many of these early autumn mornings laden with mist and dew. The spiders must hate them, as the mist renders their webs temporarilly useless. The little tenants of these dew-soaked webs are all absent, each [...]
Strolling through the Fall Festival at Pricketts Fort
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, applebutter, autumn, bear fat, blacksmithing, civilian militia, Cordelia Spencer, domestic life, Fall Festival, frontier forts, frontier women, Greg Bray, harvest, Judy Wilson, Lee Miller, living history, Okey Simmons, powderhorn, re-enacting, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Virginia frontier, wigwam on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First color . . .
Posted in autumn, blacksmithing, Greg Bray, wigwam, tagged Add new tag on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The days have been decidedly cooler, with the result that we are all lingering a little longer beside the fires in the main cabins. There have been other signs of autumn as well: a large maple behind the Bray Blacksmith Shop took on a yellow hue almost overnight a couple of days ago; another bald [...]
These autumn mornings . . .
Posted in autumn, Greg Bray, mountain mist on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finally the weather has turned autumnal, with cool nights and mornings, which in West Virginia, in the river valleys, often means a heavy mist. This shot of the fort was taken about 7:30 yesterday morning. After the fog cleared, the day became mildly warm, sunny, and very pleasant. Greg Bray stepped out of his blacksmith shop [...]
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