This was taken in the backyard garden of the historical Clark House in Annandale, Virginia, built by William Lee Clark in 1902. Once a large dairy farm that operated for 50 years, the Victorian farmhouse now sits atop the hill, alone in a sense, reigning not over rolling farmland and grazing cows, but over a townhouse development, a busy shopping mall and continuous traffic on the busy pike on which it borders. The best that can be said is that the county recognized its historical value and, for the most part (the interior is heavily modernized) restored the structure, if only for the purpose of catering to wedding parties and corporate functions. A compromise, I suppose.