I’ve been busy, busy, busy this spring. I’ve been writing, editing, giving tours at Jamestown Settlement, watching my eldest graduate from college and my youngest revel in being a high school senior. We took a trip to New Orleans for my nephew’s wedding last month, and over the whole spring I’ve been supervising the rejuvenation of our backyard a mere eight years after Hurricane Isabel destroyed it (I can’t take any credit for the work, that’s all my husband’s doing!). Amidst all this we somehow find time to enjoy walks with our American Eskimo Dog, Anna.
Since I’ve had so little time to post here I thought I’d share some of the sights on our favorite walking route – through Colonial Williamsburg, or CW as the locals call it:
Duke of Gloucester Street
We like to start our walks on the “back street” as I think of it, actually called Nicholson Street. It lets Anna get her energy out a bit before she encounters the busier Duke of Gloucester Street, though this day was not particularly busy. Note the initials of that street are DOG, which is what the locals call it. It’s a favorite dog walking spot in town. 
- Historic buildings on DOG Street
Someday I’m going to have to set a book here. Every time I walk the historic area, which is often, I begin to imagine ghosts whispering to me, but I haven’t quite found the story yet.
Chownings Tavern (pronounced “chewnings”) has great food, but if you’re ever in town, head down there after dinner for period music, tavern games, and sometimes a wonderful magician. Baskets of peanuts in the shell are on every table, and I can recommend the hard apple cider, or the hard pear cider.
- The Magazine
Not far from Chownings on the opposite side of the street is the Magazine. In the evenings you can often watch groups of tourists learn how to drill like the military, marching about the grounds of the Magazine. Across the street is a large field that makes for an excellent spot to watch the fireworks on the Fourth of July, or during the Grand Illumination (first Sunday in December).
And now we’ve arrived at my very favorite garden in all of Williamsburg (and there are a lot here!). I can never remember what these flowers are called, but late in the spring when these are in bloom it is a breathtaking spot.
I hope you are finding some time to enjoy the spring!
Full disclosure: I’m acquainted with the reviewer. We belong to the same Romance Writers of America local chapter but we really don’t know each other more than to say hello at meetings. I had no idea she had read my book once, never mind again. I’m posting it here because her experience of the book is exactly what I aim to do each and every time I write a story – to transport the reader to a different time and place and immerse her in the lives of my characters. It really lifts my heart when I see that I have accomplished that goal.
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