Less than an hour outside of Leesburg is the historic town of Winchester, Virginia. A city rich in Civil War history and a full weekend could be spent here seeing all the sites. It wasn't so much a destination on this trip but rather a place I had to travel through on my way home. The one stop I did make was at this old railroad station. The station was built in 1893. The tracks are still used by trains; but the station hasn't seen passengers in quite sometime. The present railroad company does use the station for office space. 
These were three HUGE apples I saw as I drove through the town. It seems they were auctioned off as a fundraiser for local charities. The red apple you see in the first photo was the original. They debuted at the town's 2005 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival and the project raised over $37,000 for local charities. Nice pieces of community art.
And, here we are on the road again as we listen to Patsy Cline. Winchester is the hometown of the famous country singer so I thought we'd listen to one of her songs today. We won't go walking but riding on down the road or it will be midnight before we get home!Tomorrow I'm going to skip a few hours down the road to post some Skywatch photos of my West Virginia Mountains because Friday is West Virginia Day. In the next few days I will backtrack so I can show you an Indian Mound and a Civil War site I visited along the way.
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