Tim Jon

Just Like Nothing (Else) On Earth

Tim Jon

Just like nothing (else) on earth: Old Waterford Road

April 3, 2024

By Tim Jon By the time I arrived, they were all resting – at peace – sleeping the approximate six feet underground; I’d driven up to the Village of Waterford from the south, with a journey through fog and dense greenery – not to mention some incredibly rough roads – and – quite unexpectedly came…

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Just like nothing (else) on earth: Hal & Berni Hanson Regional Park 

February 28, 2024

By Tim Jon I was so anxious to explore this place, I arrived long before sunrise and forced myself to wait in my car until I could at least justify the camera in my pocket; I’d made the discovery – just a few days before my visit – of a new ‘sleeping giant’ of a…

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Just like nothing (else) on earth: Leesburg Presbyterian Churchyard

January 31, 2024

By Tim Jon I am not one to dwell in the past; in the performance of my six-day-a-week job, my colleagues and I generally work at such a frantic pace that we joke about forgetting our own names. That’s not as far from the truth as you might guess, what with mail carriers expected to…

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Burial Ground for the Enslaved at Belmont

Just like nothing (else) on earth: Burial Ground for the Enslaved at Belmont

January 3, 2024

By Tim Jon Next time I stop in, I want to hear the birds sing, as I took an early morning stroll around the land set aside as the Burial Ground for the Enslaved at Belmont. I found the silence broken only by the nearby traffic on Route Seven – with the motorists – understandably…

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Just like nothing (else) on earth: Austin Grove United Methodist Church

November 29, 2023

By Tim Jon  The place appeared to be sleeping, the last time I visited. And that was fine, as I’d driven from my home in Leesburg that morning – coming up through the Town of Middleburg and then on a series of unpaved roads – passing through the small community of Bloomfield on the way.…

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