These were taken from Locklies Marina over in Topping, which is about a twenty-minute drive from my house.
A wonderful blog friend of mine, who owns a vacation home at Cricket Hill, invited me out to dinner last week. She said we were going to White Stone.
(White Stone? No, Irvington.)
Correction. Irvington.
Either way, I imagined
People tend to wear lots of pink and green on that side of the Rappahannock, the closer you get to the Tides Inn.
The farther south you are from Irvington, the less
On average.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that, necessarily. But I never wore pink and green. Or pink by itself. And after 4 years and 3.5 months at U.Va., I swore I'd never, ever wear pink and green together, even if my
Imagine my surprise when my friend said, "Turn here!" at Eckhards in Topping. We hadn't even come to the bridge. Didn't have to cross the Rappahannock. We were headed to a whole new place, a whole new experience. And there was no requirement to wear pink and green! In fact, since most of the seating here is outdoors, shoes may even have been optional.
This was my kinda place.
I'll share more about the surprise of a restaurant that awaited at the end of Locklies Creek Road in the next blog post.
In conclusion, I apologize if you or anyone you know likes to wear Ray Bans or the color combination of pink and green. Or skirts with turtles on them. Or penny loafers.
But I just
The End.
8 comments:
Note to self: do not wear the pink and green outfit the next time we visit Mathews. Oh wait, the shocking pink and lime green Hawaiian shirt is probably ok. :)
LOL this was one of your best blogs. The preppie commentary was hilarious. I don;t know how you keep cranking these great blogs out day after day but hope you keep it up. Betsy
Love your blog! I found it while looking up some info on Haven Beach. We were in Mathews over the weekend, visiting a friend's place. Our house is on the Northern Neck; we come through Kilmarnock to get to Mathews. I was a little bit confused about not going over the bridge to go to lunch... until I remembered that Topping is on the Middlesex side of the rivah. :) We will check this place out- thank you for the recommendation!
Hello, my name is Jamie and I own a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses. But since they're prescription, they shouldn't count. My Aunt Lucille lives in Topping. Random unimportant nobody-really-cares fact for you. I also once owned a pair of penny loafers and a pair of mint green Chuck Taylor's that I wore with peach colored socks. I think mint green and peach also qualify for preppiness. I was completely reformed. Now it's more like flip flops and rubber ducks.
never was a fan of pink and green or preppies or high tide trousers or men in wingtip shoes w/o socks .. or pants with whales on them ... all that belongs in lock-jaw Greenwich, CT ..
I was never a preppie, I was always a hippie
I had a brief preppy phase in the 1980s and certainly more than my share of exposure during my years at The Country Club, aka Dickinson College. I'm sure our preps there would have been equally at home at Yooveeay. Now my wardrobe trends towards shades of brown and gray in tones of frump and meh.
Hippie chick here too although I do have some pink and green and every other of the rainbow on my front porch! I'd like to try that place!
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I've never cared for the combination of pink and green either. Not because they are "preppy", but I associate the colors of a certain sorority that I remember from my college years back in the dark ages. I'm sure the sorority as a whole was/is nice, but this particular group was not. Although, during my hippie years, I did make a blazer that I called my "Ice Cream Jacket". It was a courduroy paisley in hot pink, turquoise, and a couple shades of purple with a hot pink lining. Loved that jacket.
Love the pictures and can't wait to hear about your flip flop fine dining experience.
Since I work in the hospital right in the middle of the pink/green community, I know what you mean. We actually do see a lot more of that combo in the summer when the "Tides" is open for business. We get patients from all over the country who have come here for vacation. I have to admit that I do own RayBan's but no pink/green!
I have heard that the restaurant at Locklies is really good but have not tried it yet.
Trinia
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