Celebrating Yanni celebrating his Acropolis Tour

Last Sunday night, my husband, niece, and her husband saw Yanni at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia. It was my third time seeing Yanni at Wolf Trap. This time he was celebrating the 25th anniversary of his Live at the Acropolis tour. It’s rained a lot in Northern Virginia this summer, so I was worried about that, but the weather was perfect. We didn’t have to suffer the heat and humidity as in past concerts there. I had told my niece that Yanni and his orchestra would blow them away and he didn’t let me down. He played all my favorites, spending two and a half hours on stage. And yes, he blew us away. All I can say is WOW!

City of Manassas 4th of July fireworks

The City of Manassas 4th of July fireworks were excellent this year. The past two years were disappointing to me -- cloudy and overcast in 2016 so after the first few fireworks, all you saw was smoke. And last year it rained so I stayed home for the first time ever. But this year, Mother Nature cooperated and Manassas brought it -- I think they were the best ever! During the finale, you could feel it in your chest and the ground felt like it was shaking. And the noise was sooooo loud. It was too cool.

This was the aftermath

Bye Bye Bao Bao

Bao Bao, the giant panda from National Zoo, left Washington DC for China yesterday. My office happens to view of the toll road the FedEx truck took to get to Dulles Airport so we were able to watch as it passed by. A whole group of us waved bye bye to Bao Bao as she passed by.

Manassas Eagle preening and sitting pretty

 

Manassas Eagle in flight

Dinner time at the Manassas Eagle nest

We drove over to the Manassas Eagle nest this past Saturday. It was so cold that we decided to grab some food and sit in the truck while we watched the nest and ate our lunch. When we got there, all we saw was the top of a head sitting low in the nest. Nothing happened for about 15 minutes and then out of nowhere we spotted this Eagle flying in from the right. I didn't have time to get out of the truck and focus my camera on the action so I just took a picture from inside the truck. The quality isn't good but I was happy to see that I caught it with it's talons clutching dinner.

What do Eagles do after getting frisky?

Mom goes back to the nest and the egg

And Dad goes to a nearby tree to pick at it's beak

Manassas Eagles getting frisky

Manassas Eagle is nesting now

I've visited the nest two weekends in a row and both times found an Eagle laying low in the nest. I'm officially on egg watch now!

King of the nest

More from the frisky Manassas Eagles

Manassas Eagles are getting frisky

I visited the Manassas Eagles nest last weekend and both were in the nest. I was only there two minutes when I was able to capture these photos of the pair mating. This is good sign since I'm hoping they lay eggs within the next month.

FiFi firing up its engines

We drove over to Manassas Airport last Friday to watch the four bombers leave for the World War II Washington DC flyover. It was pretty cool. This photo was taken as FiFi, the B29, was firing up its engines.

Virginia Bluebells

Took this picture at the Bluebell Festival at Merrimac Farm

National Museum of the Marine Corps

You can't miss the National Museum of the Marine Corps as you pass it on I-95 and every time we drove by we said "we need to stop one day." We finally did and it was an afternoon well spent.

50 year anniversary

I only have one memory of that day 50 years ago today...the principal came into the classroom at my elementary school and whispered something in my teacher's ear. He left and she sat quietly crying.

17 year cicadas emerge

A little LOVE in Manassas

Guarding the spirits

Clara Barton reenactor