On Friday after leaving our camp we drove straight to Charlottesville to see Thomas Jefferson’s house which we love and have seen several times in the past. This is more of a side view of the house but I think I put a link to a site with 
photo’s of the house so I won’t do that again.
Around the back of the house is actually the side I like best 
the gardens. I’m talking vegetables, orchard, grapes, you name it if it can grow in the area he tried it and the garden people at the site take care of it all and has it looking like it did then. This photo on the left is part of the vegetable garden! yes just part. I love it – it reminds me so much of the garden we had when I was growing up – it wasn’t this big, but it was long like this and not quite 
to so wide.
Since we had been there last a new visitor center and store, theater and museum were also built. Here is a photo of that area. The house is at the top of a very tall hillside, the visitor center is at the bottom of the hill near the parking lot so it does not detract from the mansion. A shuttle bus has to be taken from the parking lot to the mansion, about a 1/2 mile to mile drive I believe. If you are ever in that area it is very well worth the trip to see it – allow a half day if you want to take any or all of the tours.
Now on to my quilting. I don’t think I have posted any of the photo’s of what little quilting I have done in the 9 days 
since we left the house! Here is a Dear Jane square on the right – G1 I don’t remember the 
name and do not have the book handy. On the left is my work space in the motorhome. I am working on G2 in this photo. We normally leave the bed made up for days on end inside of using it as the dinette area – it is easier to leave it made and not have to put the bed together at night. We have 3 captains chairs on the opposite end so it is not a problem with only the two of us here.
I do not think I will be back on the computer for the next 4 days or so – maybe longer. We will be at the Shenadoah National Park until the 15th – I do not think they have wireless in the park and then on to a state park in Northern Maryland. I might have to resort to a bookstore somewhere that has wireless. I will post more photo’s when I can. If we have a rainy day we just might load the computers in the car and look for internet cafe.
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