I put together a quick road trip to Williamsburg, anchored by a visit to the recently expanded Muscarelle Museum of Art on the William & Mary campus for its fine exhibition of women Abstract Expressionists.
After that, it was field trips:
- to the tiny but mighty Williamsburg Botanical Garden: scoliid wasps and nomad bees spotted among the Golden Alexanders;
a short walk along the Basset Trace Nature Trail, carefully tended by the Virginia Master Naturalists Historic Rivers Chapter; oddly, you drive through Colonial Williamsburg and park next to a hotel building to get to the trailhead;- and on the way home, a stop at Westmoreland State Park on the lower Potomac: friendly rangers and a solitary Rattlesnakeweed (Hieracium venosum) that seems to be out of its vouchered range.
On the back roads of U.S. 17 and Virginia 3, I lost count of the number of Baptist churches, as well as yard signs urging YES or NO in the upcoming referendum [Narrator: David is against the measure].