We stayed off of I-95 for the first leg of the trip back and took US 1. There is a pretty little bridge in Caroline County that has obelisks mounted at both ends and in the middle. I'm not sure what the significance is, but I found them to be a delightful addition and stopped to take a couple of pictures.
Fortunately, the day was beautiful and not overly hot. I will spare readers a summary of the language I used as we ran into our first gridlock in Fredericksburg.
Which is why the Army teaches the Left and Right Flanking manouvres.
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Obelisks hey?
ReplyDeleteMust have been built by the ancient Egyptians. That was a really old bridge you were driving over.
B on a b: Well, possibly, But they must have been a race of very small Egyptians.
ReplyDeleteMrs Paco is lovely, you lucky man Paco.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bruce. I am blessed many times over, because she is also possessed of a sweet disposition and an amazingly high level of self-taught proficiency in home repairs (it has been her practice to go along behind contractors correcting their mistakes, and she once identified and fixed a problem with the air conditioning system on the car that had baffled even our most trusted mechanics).
ReplyDeleteDid you rob the cradle? She doesn't look anywhere near old enough to have a son as old as my daughter!
ReplyDeleteHOMEmakers have brains which are wired different & can solve a multitude of problems with no extensive training except their common sense & ingenuity (usually something they learned from THEIR mums). You really are lucky to have found one, they are becoming rare.
KC: Robbin' the cradle? Why, Mrs. Paco's older than I am...well, by a few days, anyhow.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that interesting...I'm older than My Chief by about 7 months... get 'em young & raise 'em right, dontchaknow!?
ReplyDeleteMrs. Paco is truly a delightful woman Paco. I'm not sure who's luckier, you or her.
ReplyDeleteObelisks are amazing structures, so simple in design, yet so powerful in meaning.
With absolute connection to nothing you've written here except that for some reason it brought it to thought, when you and Mrs. Paco get to Melbourne, you both must come up with me to Mt Macedon. It's pretty special up there.
I may even take you to Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance, an amazing building built from money mostly raised by schoolchildren (what a change in our children's attitudes to war since then!) during the Depression.
Paco, you didn't tell us your bride was so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAs for the obelisks on the bridge in the middle of nowhere... architectural over-compensation?
Ash: I hope we'll be able to take you up on that, someday!
ReplyDeleteRebecca: I believe you're right. Probably some sheriff couldn't afford a pyramid to mark his passing, so he used county funds for the mini-obelisks.