Dogs and Burgers

Colonial Beach, Virginia 

The Wooden Boat Show at Mystic Seaport wrapped up on July 1st and over on Connecticut Diaries, Ed is posting pictures from the event this week. I love classic wooden boats, and have always wanted to attend the Wooden Boat Show, which is sponsored by Wooden Boat magazine.

Connecticut Diaries is well worth a look, even if you are not a wooden boat enthusiast, with well done photographs on a variety of subjects. I have added a permanent link in the sidebar.

Trees and shadows

Colonial Beach, Virginia 

Fat Freda's

Colonial Beach, Virginia

This past week has been perfect early summer weather here in Virginia, with clear skies, plenty of sunshine and cool breezes keeping the temperatures comfortable. But hot weather is heading our way this weekend so it will be a good time to find a cool retreat.

Hot or cool, have a great weekend, and thanks for reading Photography in Place.

Linda's Beauty Shop

Colonial Beach, Virginia

Reflection

Colonial Beach, Virginia

Riverview Inn

Colonial Beach, Virginia 

The Riverview Inn was built in 1949 and evokes the "modern" architecture of the 1950s. Line the street with  period automobiles and you have a 1950s movie set.

The sign may not be original. Earlier photos show the hotel operating under a different name with a much smaller and less decorative square sign. The current sign seems quite appropriate for the building; perhaps a little too tall, but nicely reminiscent of the era.

Evening on the Potomac

Colonial Beach, Virginia

The first river trip of the season was this past weekend. Other than some rain Friday evening as we left, the weather was perfect and Saturday morning we headed down the Potomac to Colonial Beach, where we spent the day. This week we will be looking at some pictures from this trip and exploring some of the older buildings and architecture in the town of Colonial Beach.