Early Winter on the Northern Neck

      


      
Ben Franklin Shop-18k

      
 
Oak Lane

      
 


      
Kayan Va-28k

      


      
Boats At Low Tide-20k

      
 


      
Wellfords Warf-20k

      
 


      
Low Tide-27k


Soft, ancient names and waters 

-- Potomac, Rappahannock, Chesapeake-- 

shape the shore of the Northern Neck of Virgina into a fractial complexity of

cliffs, creeks, marshes and swampsA hundred miles long, the peninsula's sandy soils have been cut by timeless rain into
 
gulleys deeply hidden under canopies of oak, poplar, hickory and gum. 

Long ago slaves grew the tobacco that built 

the mansions of heroes who helped found a nation.
  
The big, old houses stand now

near smaller ones built by 

      
 


      
Bailey Family at Rest-34k

      

        
farmers,fishermen,

and timber men,

all

the people bound

then as now


by

the past

the land

and the water.
      

      
 


      
Clothes Blowing in the Wind-22k


      
 


      
Keeping Warm-20k

      
 Reflections On The Northern Neck

by Frank Delano









      

      
 


      
Mill Pond-36k


      
 


      
Fishermans Pier Jones Creek


      
31k

      
 


      
Jones Creek - 45k

      
 


      
Fishermen Return - 36k





        

Kathleen Welker
discovered the charming landscape of the Northern Neck in 1998 and
continues to explore and interpret it with her camera and her brush.