Every year we see these amazing colors because leaves start to end their food-making process as the length of daylight and temperature change. This causes the chlorophyll in the leaves to break down and the leaves lose their green color while the yellow and orange colors become more visible. ...
‘I have definitely heard from some citizens that the very notion of a gondola is too ridiculous to even be considered’, Christopher Slatt, the chairman of the Arlington County, Virginia’s Transportation Commission, told the Wall Street Journal this summer. ‘Why give transit critics ammunition ...
I live in Virginia in the modest Blue Ridge mountains where the climate is just barely cold enough in the winter to make us reasonably safe from tropical and semitropical communicable diseases. But I can’t harvest a tomato outside before July 4 and usually a couple of weeks later.Frost ge...
I am competing in a one woman competition to see who can come up with the hottest, spiciest arugula leaf by leaving some of the plants to grow old, woody and leggy. Thus far, I am winning in that one of my plants may qualify as eligible firewood come fall. If you take one of the...
The business enjoyed a steady growth and became known for its quality products in the region comprising Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. A response to other needs of the industry resulted in the creation of small, battery-operated personnel carriers in 1984. These 3-...