Memorial Weekend

Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson. Harold has been wanting to go there for some time now, so we finally went. Jacob and I went some years back with my mom and dad, but it was overcast and cold when we went. This time it was sunny, but not too hot (hot, but tolerable) and the flowers were in full bloom, it was beautiful.

This is where you enter the home for the tour.

This is part of the vegetable and herb garden to the left of the house, below the row where all of the slave cabins were (only footings left of some of those).

This is the gate to the family cemetary and the monument that has been erected at Thomas Jefferson's gravesite. The original marker was a plain stone, as he thought putting a plane stone on his grave would stop people from taking pieces of it as souveniers, but that proved not to be the case and it was finally removed and is a museum somewhere (can't remember where) and this one was erected and the fence put around the family cemetary.

This is the back of the house (which to me looks more like the front would) and below are some of the flowers along the drive leading up to it.

For Memorial Day we had Margarethe, Andy, Mary, Bobbie and her daughter Judy over for BBQ and Mary brought me these flowers for the table. Aren't they perfect! We had a great time, enjoying each others company and stuffing ourselves with hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, pasta salad, baked beans and more. Margarethe made us some delicious made-from-scratch cupcakes for dessert. Everything was YUMMY!