summer

Detail of Chenopodin capitatum or 'Strawberry Blite' - an heirloom flower blooming in the Lewis House Garden.

Aerial view of the newly expanded DeWitt Wallace Decorative Art Museum and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum taken by drone.

Aerial view of the Governor's Palace maze taken by a drone.

Aerial view of the Governor's Palace and surrounding gardens taken by a drone.

Cleveland Bay foals Monty (l) and Valiant (r) greet each other in a Historic Area pasture last summer.

A coachman drives the Royal Governor's carriage past the Magazine on Duke of Gloucester Street on a summer day in the Historic Area.

Leicester longwool sheep graze in a pasture in the Historic Area.

The Ludwell-Paradise House in the summertime. This building is one of the original 88 buildings in the Historic Area.

Aerial view of the Governor's Palace and surrounding gardens taken by a drone.

An Historic Trades farmer inspects tobacco plants for worms.

A boy rolls a hoop alongside the Royal Governor's horse drawn carriage.

The Robert Carter traveling coach filled with interpreters travels across Palace Green with the Governor's Palace in the background.

A costumed girl plays with a hoop and stick in the yard of the Benjamin Powell House.

The Grand Union flag flies over cupola of the Capitol.

A junior interpreter stands at a fence at the Benjamin Powell House.

A junior interpreter plays with a hoop and stick in the gardens at the Benjamin Powell House.

A junior interpreter water plants with a bucket in the James Geddy House garden.

Two young girls admire black-eyed susan flowers in the James Geddy House garden.

Junior interpreters in the James Geddy House gardens.

A junior interpreter carries a basket through a gate in the James Geddy House garden.

Skirret plants bloom in the Colonial Garden. This image appears in the book, "Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way."

An interpreter uses a yoke to carry two buckets of water to fill the water barrel in the Colonial Garden. This image appears in the book, "Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way".

A harvest of "Old White" shallots from the Colonial Garden sits on a bench. This image appears in the book, "Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way."

A basket of Pocket Melons in the Colonial Garden.

A cluster of ripening Pineapple melons in the Colonial Garden. This image appears in the book, "Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way."