Thanks for the nice response Larry.  I'm glad you liked it.

I stop by this old historic town every so often when I go back to the Eastern Shore to see relatives.  I was raised nearby the area.  This time I was curious to see if the old Wye Mill was decorated since it was Christmas Eve, and If so, I wanted to get some shots.  While walking around the area I saw a huge Bald Eagle and was the closest I'd ever been to one!  I was disappointed I couldn't manage a photograph of it.

While there, I decided to travel down the street to see the old church.  I hadn't been inside the Wye Church in about 40 years!  They were having services later that night at 10 pm.


The town of Wye Mills has several historic buildings including the old Wye Mill (historically registered grist mill).  A one room school house, church, cemetery and Wye Oak State Park. The Wye Plantation was a sometimes meeting place for the President during the Clinton administration as I recall.  The Wye River is also well known for it's importance to water-men of the Chesapeake Bay.


The Wye Oak was the largest white oak tree in the United States and the State Tree of Maryland from 1941 until its demise in 2002.^[3] Wye Oak State Park preserves the site where the revered tree stood for more than 400 years in the town of Wye Mills, Talbot County, Maryland.^[3]


The Wye Oak was believed to be over 460 years old at the time of its destruction during a severe thunderstorm on June 6, 2002. It measured 31 feet 10 inches (970 cm) in circumference of the trunk at breast height, 96 feet (29 m) high, with a crown spread of 119 feet (36 m).^[4] It is believed that the acorn that became the oak germinated around the year 1540. The Wye Oak was still bearing a maturing crop of acorns when it was toppled.^[5]


Cheers,