Already, it is time to get back on the riding lawn mower and cut the grass on this expansive porperty where we live, here on Hopes Way in Bedford, Virginia.

The white blossoms in the forground adorn an apple tree in the backyard of the Hodge home where we reside. Cedar trees line the property on both the north and south borders of the yard.

Beyond the trees and the open land is the faint outline of the Blue Ridge Mountains that give such a beautiful setting to the community of Bedford and the surrounding rural area.