About an hour before sunset, Jen Fariello climbed to the top of a grassy hill with her camera. She looked through her lens down on the bride and groom exchanging vows under a rustic moss-covered altar with 10 rows of white chairs neatly arranged in a romantic countryside garden at Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyard. […]
“I am not the kind of mom who scrapbooks,” said Taylor Harris, a Charlottesville stay-at-home mom, of her blog, sweetmilks.com. “This is a cool way to chronicle what’s happened. I’m a creative type and not organized, and I try to have some sort of organization with their lives.” Blogging is Harris’ way of creating a […]
When the Blue Ridge Tunnel opened in 1858, its narrow 4,273′ passage through the mountains near Rockfish Gap created a corridor connecting Richmond to the Shenandoah Valley. Engineered by French civil engineer Claudius Crozet, it was a feat at the time, constructed in the most difficult stretch of the Virginia railroads—a very steep, craggy passage—and […]