Boot season

Lizzy’s Latest – Top 5 Fall Favorites

While driving home one night a few weekends ago, I entered my neighborhood and a familiar scent of burning wood wafted into my car.  I breathed it in with a smile and joyous anticipation of the new season.  I LOVE fall!  It is my favorite season.  The weather is as perfect as weather can be in the DMV.  Cool mornings, warm afternoons, and crisp evenings.  I love that chill in the air and the contentment I feel when I break out a long cardi to blanket me in warmth.  I’m looking forward to fall foliage, one of the best attractions of the season.  Viewing a panorama of colors is delight to my eyes.  The leaves, so brilliant yet fleeting, remind me of life and how it is so important to cherish every moment.  With this new season comes the return of boots, the best fashion of the year, football, Halloween screams, and as always…drum roll please…Lizzy’s Latest annual Top 5 Fall Favorites! 🙂 (more…)

Haunted History – Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone: Henry’s Descent to Madness

April 11, 1865:  Washington DC socialite, Miss Clara Harris, was at the White House listening to President Abraham Lincoln address a mostly jubilant crowd.  Just a few days before, Confederate General, Robert E. Lee, surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General, Ulysses S. Grant, at Appomattox Court House.  This surrender marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy and the long fought Civil War. 


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