Family Collage, Colonial Virginia

This is our own private piece, a collage of photos from two trips we made to Virginia in 97 and 98. Most of the shots are from Colonial Williamsburg, but there are also shots from Yorktown, Jamestown, Jefferson's Montecello, and King's Mountain, North Carolina (the site of an important Revolutionary War battle that began the turning of the tide to produce victory for the American Patriots). What began as a long needed vacation turned into a life changing event of sorts, and our hearts have really been in Virginia since that first trip. God willing, the rest of us will be there too very soon!

There is far too much to say about those places and those trips for the purposes at hand, but I will turn aside to say this: The Williamsburg area is a very peculiar place. There within a few miles of one another is Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World and the beginning of Colonial America; Williamsburg, seat of the Virginia government, where many debates and decisions of import to the Patriot cause took place – including Patrick Henry's Liberty or Death Speech; and Yorktown, where a most unusual set of circumstances brought the American and French armies to a place where Washington never intended to go, to meet the French navy (with bare communication) at just the right time to trap Lord Cornwallis and force his surrender of the British Army under his command. Maybe it's sheer coincidence that the opening and the closing of the American Colonial Period occurred practically in the same place, but it certainly made me stop and think. The trip in 97 was right before God Came (see sidebar), and I tell you that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob used that trip to begin to open my eyes to His reality and His present activity in the affairs of men.

He's working all around you in your life too, just like Jesus said he is, even if you're as in-the-dark about it as I was. But that's another story for another day.

So perhaps you can see why I would start pulling together the photos of such a time and place and wind up piecing them together to make a collage. I can't recall how many layers and masks and such the PSD file had, but there are at least thirteen different photos in there that I can count offhand.

What kinds of photos do you have that might be used to make an equally beautiful Collage of your Times and Places?


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