Why the name "My Seaview"?
Simple. About 8 years ago Dian and I were at Monticello and Kat Imhoff escorted us around a bit. There is a spot just east of Jefferson's home and above the garden that Jefferson called "My Seaview". From that point looking east north east, the blue cast Piedmont hills look like waves of a sea and as Jefferson had crossed the Atlantic, he clearly remembered what it was like to look off at the distant sea from the deck of a sailing craft. Kat implied that he liked to gaze off at his Seaview, possibly in reflection.
I marveled at the thought that a continent away, I too gaze west at the waves of the Pacific wondering what mystery they hold.
About Me
- Jim
- Seaview, Washington, United States
- I live a mile from where I was born but sometimes I feel like a stranger in my own strange land. Descendant from gold miners (The Yukon and Mexico), coal miners (Wales, British Columbia and Washington), timbermen (Sweden), sod and berry farmers (Missouri, Washington), Klondikers, fortune seekers and just plain hearty peasant stock.
