Brookside aka Merrybrook, Herndon, VA

Located on Centreville Road, Brookside (aka Merrybrook) was the home of confederate spy, Laura Ratcliffe.

Said brook...

There is a family cemetery (FX064) near the house. From my vantage point on public property, I was unable to pinpoint its location.

Zion Church & Cemetery, Urbana, MD

Click on this link for really interesting photos from before the church restoration.

Of interest: a small wooden peg utilized as some sort of marker. I rarely see wooden markers of any kind in the Mid-Atlantic region. I have no idea how old the wooden marker is, why it is so close to the larger headstone, or indeed if it is actually marking a burial.
[Maddy: note wooden marker]

Progeny of the Wye Oak, Potomac, MD

I was at Cabin John Park yesterday and happened upon one of the Talbot county wye oak offsprings. Planted at the park in 1976 (I had never noticed...)

Good to see that Porky "Nightmare Maker of My Childhood Years" was holding strong to terrorize yet another generation of tidy children: