Snow Birds, Williamsburg, Virginia

Williamsburg is occasionally blessed with a little snow that lasts a day or two as the temperatures usually shift upward and quickly melt it all away. Not so this week when we received about 6 inches of snow and ice with uncharacteristically cold temperatures keeping the snow around, the roads ice covered, and the children out of school all week. Tonight, we will flirt with record lows of about 1 with a -5 to -10 wind chill. Hope the birds snuggle in their bird bottle.

Working The Well, Great Hope Plantation, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Early in the morning, the laborers at the Great Hope Plantation draw the day's water from the well.

Great Hope Plantation, Colonial Williamsburg Virginia

This corn crib at the Great Hope Plantation, Colonial Williamsburg's representation of an average farm setting during the 1770's, is one of the many agrarian exhibits on the site which also focuses on slave life.  It is in stark contrast to the massive plantations of the wealthy of the time.