This is Jimmy and Sandy Joyce, friends who, like us, winter in Elite Resorts at Citrus Valley, Clermont, Fl. Unlike us, they have a beautiful "sticks and bricks " home, which is in Martinsville, VA. As part of our summer travels, we stopped in Martinsville, for a longer stay than intended. We have had two opportunities to share with them. First, we were invited to their home for dinner. Yesterday, one of the most weatherly perfect days I can remember, we went to Smith Mountain Lake for lunch.
It is hard to see what is happening here, but the 3 people with their backs to us are watching a carp feeding frenzy at Smith Mountain Lake. Never before have I seen fish gather to be fed as we witnessed here. Someone on the dock was feeding them popcorn, and the fish gathered en masse. It was quite a sight.
After lunch, we went to the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA. This was an unexpected moving experience. Neither Sandy nor Jimmy had seen it, so together we experienced it for the first time. The Memorial is in Bedford because that town/county suffered the most severe per capita loss of the nation that June 6, 1944. The sculptures were incredible, done by Jim Brothers. Sandy and I were most touched by the many wreaths that remained from the recent 75th commemoration of the greatest combined military effort of all time, an event which culminated in the defeat of Hitler and victory in Europe.
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