About Earlysville's Earlysville Village

A few weeks ago, I drove up to the Blue Ridge Parkway to see about getting some photographs to use on my website and blog. The color was disappointing this year, but I managed to get one or two pretty photographs...

This weekend, while working on our own property in Earlysville, taking care of Fall clean-up, I was stopped in my tracks by the beauty of our surroundings.

I have to say, however, that there's no color quite as stunning as the color we get from the Bradford Pears which line Bleak House Road. They bring joy to all of us who live and walk along this beautiful road.

If you love finding great new crafts areas, don't miss a visit to Mud Dauber Studio and Pottery Shop in Earlysville, Virginia

The studio and gallery are owned by well-known potter, Suzanne Crane, who's work is both beutifully crafted and simply beautiful. On her website, Suzanne described Mud Dauber Studio and Workshop..

Mud Dauber Pottery houses a working studio and a separate gallery featuring the award-winning fine functional stoneware and earthenware of Suzanne Crane, Becky Garrity, and Sara Schneidman. Two-dimensional artwork is also displayed on the walls, featuring work by Virginia artists. Visitors can watch the potters at work in the studio when they come to visit the gallery.

Mud Dauber Studio is located in Earlysville, just west of the Charlottesville Regional Airport, on Earlysville Road, across from the Earlysville Animal Hospital. Click here for directions.

We are dog people. We also have and love kitties, and we love all of our birds and the various wildlife we enjoy here on our four acres in Earlysville, Virginia. But, when it comes right down to it, we are dog people. We've always enjoyed the company of Dalmatians, and the two who live with us now are Brunello, the pure bread Dal on the right, and Vino Nobile, a rescue mix.

Vino has been having issues with an ear hematoma, and it finally got to the point that we had to take him in for surgery. We've been back and forth with it, hoping that it would ultimately correct itself.

All of our animals have been patients of the Earlysville Animal Hospital. Dr. John Gruss has been very patient with us during this ear event, and his wife, Kathy, is the veterinary doctor who finally corrected the problem with surgery. The dog did not have a great night, and this morning Vino and I were waiting at the hospital at 7:30 when they opened. The vet tech was patient and thorough, very helpful. When Kathy arrived, I literally talked with her in the parking lot as she arrived. I don't imagine I could expect such superior, patient, friendly service from every veterinary hospital, but the Gruss's, the other vets in the practice, and each tech and member of the administrative staff are always willing to take the time to help us, and truly we appreciate them and the fact that they settled their home here in Earlysville.

It's almost here... The Fifteenth Annual Earlysville 4th of July Parade!

FIFTEENTH ANNUAL EARLYSVILLE FOURTH OF JULY PARADE
July 4, begins 1pm at the Earlysville Post Office, winding up at the Union Church for food and fellowship.

This is a very fun afternoon. We're going to join the parade this year, our first time doing so. We'll be on foot!

Most of our time away from our businesses, our "home time", is spent in our gardens here in Earlysville, Virginia.  Since building our home twenty-one years ago, Stephen has focused on creating vegetable gardens, and I have invested my creative time building perennial gardens.  We've always had a bird feeder or two, but a year or so ago, Stephen developed more of an interest in our bird population.  He began buying specific feeds for specific birds and really paying closer attention to our avian friends.  In turn, I began paying more attention to my flowers gardens, and I've been adding bird-bee-butterfly-attractors ever since. 

The first significant hummingbird attractor that I installed in our Earlysville garden was a Trumpet Vine (above).  Our Charlottesville area home is now surrounded by gardens with hummingbird-loving colorful summer plants like Monarda (Bee Balm, shown right)), Buddleia, and Weigela.  We also provide fresh sugar water weekly in three feeders, one of which is attached to our kitchen window and provides us with joy every morning and evening.

Gardening for our flying fellows in the Charlottesville, Virginia area is easy and provides a never-ending supply of joy!