We LOVE Virginia's Historic Triangle

 We headed to the Historic Triangle over spring break, for just a couple days of Virgina love. 

 We took our first walk of the day all around the College of William and Mary. The overcast day made a mom-led tour around campus bearable. We played a bit in the Sunken Garden.

 We crossed over Crim Dell Bridge which brought out all sorts of silliness with its legend of lovers' curses and spells.

 We even stopped for one successful timer shot in the Sunken Garden on the way to the main building on campus. I'm wondering how I got them to be still for this. Sometimes I shouldn't ask questions--I should just be grateful for this outlier in Player picture-taking history.

 The Wren Building at William and Mary is the oldest standing building on American college campuses. Construction took five years and it was completed in 1700, nearly 80 years after the first attempts to build a university in Virginia were attempted. At the time the capital of the colony was still at Jamestown. 

 This building has seen America in its colonial state, under revolution, during the founding, through wars, and it's still standing as a place for solemn and quirky traditions of college students today.

 If you haven't noticed, A is nearly every shot. She is still my most cooperative photography subject. She is even-tempered and always willing to jump in a shot for perspective.

 I couldn't get enough of the brick at W&M. I know should be used to it after all these years in Charlottesville. Mr. Jefferson and his colonial contemporaries loved this Virginia clay so much they built their houses and public buildings out of it. It is so beautiful in nearly every light. The variations in texture and shade make me love it more.

 That afternoon we went to Yorktown battlefield to hear the stories of revolutionary success and British defeat. We walked all over British Redoubts Nine and Ten that were overtaken in a surprise attack, He's what a redoubt looks like from the outside:

 This is what it looks like inside.

Taking those redoubts led to the British Surrender and the ending of the War. We took the trolley through Yorktown village to see the Memorial and I'm regretting not getting out to photograph the houses and details of the waterfront village that had been under siege during many times during those days of Revloution.