Virginia Snow

Unbelievably, this doesn't happen too often. It's semi-flurrying right now, but a couple of weeks ago it actually snowed to the point where you could literally scrape together enough snow for a snowball. Fortunately, there were enough barrells, canoes, tents, etc. with snow-collecting surfaces that we could scrape together enough snowballs for a really fun snowball fight. In case you were wondering about visitors, given the threat of snow in Virginia everything seems to shut down and people are terrified of leaving their house, so there were hardly any visitors that day (leaving us conveniently free to hurl frozen preciptation at each other and recreate many of the Powhatan attacks on James Fort, the ships, etc.). Here are some of the fun photos of the rare site of James Fort, etc. "under" snow.

(photos: My excitement began when the first flurries started to fall, as this veiw from the maitenance/interpretive building shows; the snow beginning to stick in the fort; an excited Don and Demeisha on the ships; the ships (from left to right: the Susan Constant, the Elizabeth (aka old Godspeed rechristened to represent a supply ship from 1611); and the Godspeed) and so much snow that you can't even see across the James to Surry!; and Mary inside the fort, unsuspecting of the attack from the Powhatan Village soon to come.)






(photos: Ashley excited about her snowballs; Johanna and Brian in the calm before the snowball fight storm; Beth's snowman; and Mike hurling snowballs in his bagattiway-esque Powhatan stick.)