Category: Charlottesville

  • New Virginia Loves Pollinators License Plate – Bees, butterflies, other pollinators flock to the same plants.

    New Virginia Loves Pollinators License Plate – Bees, butterflies, other pollinators flock to the same plants.

    Instead of a butterfly garden, perhaps we need a “Pollinators Garden” in McIntire Park East! Virginia license plate approved! Two more days to “Bee” a founder: http://www.pollinatorplates.com/p/home.html Most pollinators throughout North America are trending downward in population; some are facing a drastic decline, and others are believed to have already gone extinct. The disappearance of…

  • New Ideas for McIntire Park – the Center of Our Charlottesville PLACE

    A new park in the center of town? That is exactly what will happen soon when McIntire Park East becomes easily accessible with the completion of the McIntire Bridge and the 250/McIntire Rd Interchange. Charlottesville’s McIntire Park may one day welcome not only skateboarders and visitors to a future botanical garden, but also residents commuting to work. A…

  • Spring Is Here – City Market Is Back!

    Spring Is Here – City Market Is Back!

    Winter seemed to last forever this year, so spring is especially welcome!  On Saturday we enjoyed a stroll on the Downtown Mall, a visit to the Charlottesville City Market where we were so happy to see Hobbit House Creations, lunch at Baggby’s, and more strolling in the beautiful weather.  The marathon finish-line events were packed with…

  • Charlottesville is such an energetic PLACE!

    Charlottesville is such an energetic PLACE!

  • My Dream – a Butterfly Garden in McIntire Park East

    My friends in the North American Butterfly Association have lots of helpful information, including a comprehensive Central Virginia Butterfly Gardening Brochure by Marlene A. Condon.   I am pleased to be a member of NABA as well as a member of their National Butterfly Center! National Butterfly Center in the news: National Butterfly Center, Mission: The 5-acre cultivated garden in this…

  • “Crime Wave” hits Charlottesville again!

    My favorites at the Virginia Festival of the Book are the Crime Wave programs together with the Book Fair in the Omni Hotel. This year was better than ever! I especially enjoyed meeting Tracy Kiely, a graduate of my Alma Mater, Trinity College of Washington, DC, at Murder, Murder Everywhere.  I am looking forward to…