Name: 🌙 Twilight Tranquility: Nature, Lanterns & Sound 🏮🎶
Start: 2026-09-26T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Oatlands Historic House & Gardens

Oatlands Historic House & Gardens

🌙 As twilight settles over the historic gardens, rolling landscape, and centuries-old trees of Oatlands, join us for a gentle forest therapy experience that invites wonder, reflection, and connection with the natural world. Guided by lantern light, we'll move slowly through this storied landscape, engaging our senses and exploring the beauty of a place shaped by generations of human and ecological history. The evening concludes with a restorative sound bath, offering a peaceful opportunity to relax, reflect, and immerse yourself in the serenity of twilight. 🏮🎶. Ages: 16+
✨ Come wonder, reflect, and connect 
with the historic grounds, your inner wisdom and community. ✨

Local Event: 🌙 Twilight Tranquility: Nature, Lanterns & Sound 🏮🎶

Loudoun County

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Purcellville

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Get ready to turn ordinary rocks into tiny works of art! Join us at the Chapman DeMary Trail at 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 30, for an afternoon of creativity and nature. Participants will paint two rocks—one to take home and one to place along the trail for another visitor to discover. Your colorful creation might become someone else’s favorite trail treasure! The Purcellville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board will provide all the supplies. Registration is requested so we have enough supplies: <a href="https://purcellvilleva.gov/881/Monthly-Nature-Walks" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://purcellvilleva.gov/881/Monthly-Nature-Walks</a>.
Before you arrive, go on the Nature Trivia Walk at the Chapman DeMary Trail. Find all 10 trivia questions, write the answers on the trivia walk sheet, then bring your completed answer sheet to the rock painting event to receive a prize! Trivia walk sheets are available at the trail or online at <a href="https://purcellvilleva.gov/881/Monthly-Nature-Walks?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">purcellvilleva.gov/881/Monthly-Nature-Walks</a>.
Discover Nature’s Secrets is a monthly series of nature walks and environmental programs held on the last Sunday of each month. The series is designed to encourage people of all ages to explore, enjoy and appreciate the natural world right here in Purcellville. The program is hosted by the Purcellville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, often in partnership with the Tree and Environment Sustainability Committee and the Purcellville Arts Council.

Local Event: Rock Painting at the Chapman DeMary Trail!

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Rock Painting at the Chapman DeMary Trail!

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This journey begins with gratitude—for the trails beneath our feet, the landscapes that sustain us, and the stories held within the land. Imagine Well Being invites you into an experience that honors not only where we’ve come from, but our relationship with the places that continue to support and shape us. Through mindful movement and reflection, we deepen our connection to nature, community, and the inner wisdom that guides our well-being.
To guide your journey, the challenge invites you to explore three distinct types of landscapes:
· &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Historic Sites: Where we listen to the stories of the land.
· &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; National Scenic Trails:&nbsp;Where&nbsp;the path guides us back to ourselves.
· &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; National Parks:&nbsp;Where awe expands our perspective.
⚙️&nbsp;How it Works
You choose how, when, and where you explore. Complete the challenge at your own pace, and enrich your journey by joining our hosted, in-person community events—from hikes and bike rides to forest bathing, sound baths, and mindful movement.&nbsp;
📖 Participants receive a downloadable mindful hiking guide for each landscape, featuring sensory and creative invitations to explore with curiosity, deepen awareness, and discover what the land has to share. Weekly emails offer featured destinations with insider tips and mini challenges.&nbsp;
📅 Our challenge runs through October 24
💖 The Impact:&nbsp;A Practice of Reciprocity
Just like a healthy forest relies on an unseen network of roots to thrive, this challenge creates a beautiful cycle of mutual care between you and your community.
🌿&nbsp;Nourish Yourself
Modern life floods us with screens, noise, and constant "doing," leaving us disconnected or overwhelmed. Spending intentional, mindful time in nature lowers stress, boosts immune health, and restores physical energy. Consider this challenge your personal sanctuary—a sacred space to quiet an overactive mind and return to your truest self.
🤝&nbsp;Nurture Community
While you are out on the trail restoring your own spirit, your registration fee and donations ripple outward. Your generosity supports the work of Imagine Well Being, including:
<ul><li>Accessible Nature Programs: Keeping our holistic nature experiences affordable and welcoming to everyone.</li><li>Community Helper Workshops: Providing Wellness-in-Nature and stress-relief sessions for local library staff and other community workers.</li><li>Therapeutic Outreach:&nbsp;Bringing the healing power of forest therapy directly to residents in assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, as well as adults with developmental disabilities.</li></ul>

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🛶✨&nbsp;We will begin with a guided nature immersion experience as we paddle to a peaceful cove nestled among trees and rocky shoreline. From your kayak or paddle board, settle into a restorative floating sound bath where soothing vibrations blend with the sounds of water, birdsong, and wind through the trees. This immersive experience invites deep relaxation, mindfulness, and connection to the rhythms of the natural world. 🌳 💧

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Awaken your senses and rediscover your relationship with the living world during this guided experience. Unlike a traditional hike, forest bathing is not about distance or destination. It is a practice of slowing down, listening, and becoming fully present. As you immerse yourself in the sights, sounds, textures, and scents of the forest and water, you may discover a greater sense of calm, clarity, wonder, and belonging. Throughout the experience, there will be opportunities to share what you notice, and you may choose to just share your silence. Our time together concludes with a wild-foraged forest tea that invites you to savor the flavors of the landscape.

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Bring your family and friends to the 14th annual Hail to the Trail event at the Chapman DeMary Trail on September 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. This event is free and fun for all. Participate in hands-on activities, learn about native plants and wildlife, make a pinecone birdfeeder, get native plant seeds for your garden, help plant trees as part of the Town’s annual Arbor Day Celebration, celebrate the Town’s Tree City USA designation, and more.
Here is a list of activities and participating organizations for this year’s Hail to the Trail:
<ul><li>Barlett Tree Experts – get a free tee seedling</li><li>Imagine Well Being – explore nature with your five senses</li><li>Keep Loudoun Beautiful – play a game about how long items take to decompose</li><li>Loudoun Beekeepers Association – find the queen bee in the observation hive and check out beekeeping tools and supplies</li><li>Loudoun County Building and Development – count tree rings and match leaves</li><li>Loudoun County Health Department/Loudoun Targets Lyme – learn about tick prevention and how to remove a tick</li><li>Loudoun County Master Gardeners – identify seeds and fruits of plants found at the Chapman DeMary Trail</li><li>Loudoun Soil and Water Conservation District – check out a display of wildlife bones</li><li>Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy – jump like a frog and examine animal scat, tracks, and animal skulls</li><li>Parks and Recreation Advisory Board - play a nature memory game to win a prize and get a nature scavenger hunt sheet</li><li>Purcellville Arts Council - make pinecone birdfeeders to place along the trail and to take home</li><li>Purcellville Library—create a nature bookmark with dried flowers and leaves</li><li>Sweet Run State Park (Department of Conservation and Recreation) – use animal track stamps to make your own nature bookmark and examine animal skulls, furs, scat, and more</li><li>Town of Purcellville Water Division - take a water taste test to see if you can tell which is bottled water and which is Town water</li><li>Tree and Environment Sustainability Committee – play a nature trivia game to test your knowledge and win a prize; decorate a packet and fill it with native flower seeds for your garden</li><li>Virginia Master Naturalists, Banshee Reeks Chapter – identify plaster casts of native wildlife, learn about the life cycle of beetles, frogs, and butterflies; identify furs</li><li>Go on a nature trivia walk and get all of the answers to win a prize</li><li>Help us plant trees</li><li>Participate in the Town's annual Arbor Day Celebration and Tree City USA recognition</li><li>Enjoy live music by Willie White</li><li>Get a free slice of pizza</li><li>Help us recognize scouts and volunteers for their environmental projects in the Town of Purcellville</li><li>Get your face painted</li><li>Complete the Hail to the Trail passport to win a prize</li></ul>























The Chapman DeMary Trail, a 10-acre area which is the last stand of old-growth forest in the Town, is open to the public for environmental exploration, education, and recreation. Trail projects encourage environmental stewardship and have engaged students, scouts, and members of the community in learning about and protecting this habitat. The trail runs along the South Fork Catoctin Creek which is part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The Town of Purcellville holds the conservation easement for this privately-owned property. The entrance and parking for the Chapman DeMary Trail is behind the building at 205 East Hirst Road in Purcellville.
Hail to the Trail is hosted by the Purcellville Tree and Environment Sustainability Committee, a standing committee of the Town of Purcellville that focuses on environmental programs, sustainability, enhancement of the tree canopy, and continuation of the Town's Tree City USA designation. Get more information at <a href="https://www.PurcellvilleVa.gov/Hail-to-the-Trail" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.PurcellvilleVa.gov/Hail-to-the-Trail</a> and follow Hail to the Trail on Facebook.

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Last year’s campaign was another incredible year, collecting over 1,000 coats, and over 800 cold weather items such as scarves, gloves, and hats. Let’s make this year even better!
From Saturday, October 18 – Sunday, December 7, 2025, we will be accepting donations of clean and gently used or new coats, jackets, scarves, winter hats, gloves, and mittens at all fire and rescue stations throughout the County, the training academy, and at our Leesburg headquarters (801 Sycolin Road). If you would rather make a monetary donation that will help Loudoun residents, please visit Mobile Hope's donation page.&nbsp;

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