Best in Show

(All pics. snapped on 3/28/14, in Millwood, Va. - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

I drove over to nearby Millwood, Va. yesterday evening - so that I could check out a youth art show that was opening at The Burwell Morgan Mill... 

It was a very nice exhibition, indeed - with many different mediums represented: 

 

- watercolor, acrylic, and oil paintings, mixed media, sculpture, and drawings of all sorts - pen and ink, pencil, pastel...

…but I was especially taken with the work of two young photographers (not surprisingly), and extremely encouraged to learn that darkroom classes are currently offered at their high school.

After I left the art show, I had a hankering' to take some new pics. before it got dark...

…and so I walked a short distance down the road... 

…until I stood face to face with a decrepit, old acquaintance of mine...

…the house seen here in these snaps.

It's been almost three years exactly, since we last hung out...

…back when I staged a mess of self-portraits, on two separate occasions, in practically every room in the crippled house... 

This time however, it wasn't only the old house and me spending time together...

…we were joined by a squatter who's apparently taken up residence in the upstairs middle bedroom...

…which was fine by me...

…once I became certain that the nervous mama vulture wasn't actually going to attack me.

I've gone into a ton of messed up old houses over the years, to take pics….

…but out of all of 'em…

…I still consider this particular work of art…

...to be the undisputed winner of best in show.