It’s St. Columba Day!

[7 miles]

Cool thanks for the info and pics.

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Matt is right on! Today was the perfect day to wear my St. Columba tartan Newsome box pleat to work.

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I had gone downtown to pick up our tax filings at our auditors’ office. Across the street was Mary Ball Washington’s home (George’s mother). I remember Ron, ‘Riverkilt’ had posted on one of my Kilted Friday’s threads about how he enjoyed the garden behind Mrs. Washington’s home.

I went in to the delight of the docents. They didn’t know of St. Columba, so I gave them a quick history lesson and answered many questions about tartans and kilts.

The docent Leslie and I went to the garden to take these pix for Ron. Sorry Ron, I was two weeks late for the spring flowers and two weeks early for the summer blooms. Nevertheless it was a beautiful garden.


Here’s Leslie beside the sun dial which base was Mary’s.

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To my right are boxwoods from Mary’s day.

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Leslie stands next to the vegetable garden. Leslie is a student at Mary Washington University. She is writing a paper this summer on William Wallace!

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I am standing beside one of the largest crepe myrtles, I’ve ever seen. I understand that it was Thomas Jefferson who imported some of the first crepe myrtles from Central America.

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This evening, I met up with Sir William and SVC440BT for our toast to St. Columba at the Fredericksburg Pub.


The wait staff volunteered to join us for this photo. I do believe they enjoy their kilted patrons. It was a great St. Columba’s Day!