Old Yellow

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Longwood Avenue . Bedford

This school was built in 1908 and closed more than 20 years ago from what I've read...it is called "Big Yellow" and sits next to the Bedford Middle School which is being used now:

This one was built in the 1930's and I read that they will continue to use it through the 2017-2018 school year and then will move to a new school. I know the students are probably excited to get a new school but I would prefer one of these 2!

I have a lot more pictures of Big Yellow and I also want to do a little more research on it so I will show all that next week...I can't focus tonight, the dogs are going crazy barking at something and if they aren't barking, someone comes in to ask me a million questions...sooo...signing out for the night!

Linking with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

Train Cars

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Bedford

“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

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Happy Monday :)

Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 116

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1)

Blue Ridge Park...came here on Monday to walk the track...it was kind of cold!

2)

Glade Creek Baptist Church...this is the church that sits next to the cemetery I posted on Tuesday.

3)

Along 460...isn't this an oxymoron?

4)

Sunset this week from my deck.

5) I have been feeling like there's not time for anything lately! The boys have weight lifting at 7:45 in the morning for football so I drive them to that and come back home...I have to be back at school at 9:30 then I get off at 1-1:30...then the boys have track practice right after school so I have to go back and pick them up (rather than have them ride the bus) at 5:30 or 6, depending...My life has been chopped into small snippets of time...I'm drowning!

That's my 5 this week and I hope you will join in with us! Post 5 randoms, link back, visit others!! Thanks for playing along and have a great weekend!!



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Colonial Elementary

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Colonial Elementary School . Blue Ridge

Today I am thankful for longer days...have you noticed each day is staying light just a little bit longer than the day before? I have to pick the boys up from track practice each evening at 5:30, sometimes 6...it used to be pitch black when I'd get them, now it is looking like dusk as we drive back home! I know we still have a bit of winter left but this is just one of those things that makes me feel like spring is right around the corner...that and the 70 degree day we just had...I want more of those! Dipping back into the winter temps though for the weekend...great! That was sarcasm :)

Linking with Michelle's Thankful Thursday

Country Corner

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4273 Challenger Avenue . Roanoke

Closed till spring

Linking with Wordless Wednesday

Glade Creek Cemetery

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Have you ever seen a cemetery with...

rocking horses...

and elephants and ducks?...

Ashlyn has a good friend from high school who is buried here...the funeral was on a hot summer's day a couple of years ago...

HERE'S an interesting story on the cemetery...

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Foggy Day on the Parkway

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On Saturday afternoon the boys wanted me to drop them off at the park so they could play basketball and I wanted to go take some pictures so I jumped on the Blue Ridge Parkway and thought I'd snap some pics of the views from the overlooks...I decided to head north on the parkway and this was my first stop...a little fog...not too bad...so I pulled out and climbed up the mountain a little more for the next overlook...

I got a little nervous driving to this overlook as I drove right into some thick fog and could barely see but then it became clear...so I thought it would be ok to head up a little further to the next overlook...

It was super, SUPER foggy on this stretch so I decided not to chance going any further and headed back down the mountain...

Closer to home now...one of the pretty bridges that are all along the parkway...Linking with Mersad's Through My Lens