Excellent shots, Christine, with lots of humour. I really like the One way/One way with the cowering figure. Looks like she just doesn't know what to do.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Just a few road trip pics—nothing great. We visited a lot of author homes, > but unfortunately no interior photography was allowed, so I spared you the > exterior shots of the houses. I do include Mark Twain’s Study—an octagon > shaped building specifically built for him at his in-laws’ farm near Elmira, > NY—built so he could write undisturbed during his summer visits to the farm. > This building is now owned by Elmira College and located on campus. There > was no student ambassador around to let us in, but I took some photos through > the windows and converted to BW. They are included here. > > Visiting the author homes was great—fun to stand in Emerson’s study, the > bedrooms where Little Women was written (Concord, MA) and that tiny women in > Amherst, MA penned all those delightful poems, and, of course, seeing the > Seven Gables that inspired the House of Seven Gables was fun as well (Salem, > MA). Twain’s home in Hartford, CT is absolutely amazing and very well > preserved, but interestingly, the Emerson family STILL owns Emerson’s home: > the tour guide informed us, “We all work for the Emerson family.” Something > really cool about that. Sara Orne Jewett’s house in South Berwick, ME is > also a great house, but the town is not much to speak of. > > I’d never seen Philly, so we did all the historical stuff in one day, then > left early the next for Hartford et al. Spent a few days in Boston—Freedom > Trail, Boat ride, and Museum of Fine Arts—the Copley collection there is > fantastic—then headed for Salem, MA. > > We also paid homage to author tombstones, but I spared you those photos as > well, though Sleepy Hollow was amazing—many pilgrims travel to these markers > and leave stones, pencils, pens, other trinkets—lots of small stones at > Dickinson’s marker. Chronic dappled lighting made the markers somewhat of > challenge to photograph. Famous people seem to love pretty spots near trees. > > We traveled for 16 days by car, moved on nearly every 1-3 days. As I look > back now it was a dizzying pace, and the driving challenging: I nearly got us > killed at a small round-about in Concord, MA. > > And we drove 12 hours straight from Elmira, NY to Chicago. The drive home > started early, and we had the road nearly to ourselves, enjoying the quiet, > morning fog, and the lovely tree studded hills and valleys of NY. But then a > large doe jumped out in front of us. Fortunately, Darrel swerved right, the > doe kept left, leaving no damage to car, person, or animal. I gushed over > Darrel for his quick response, and the trip continued uneventful, that is, > until we were literally 5 minutes from home. At a speed about 15 miles per > hour, I turned a corner for the final 5 minute stretch home, only to have to > slow down to let one of our neighborhood deer, traveling about .5 miles per > hour, cross the road. Uncanny! > > Anyway, here are the pics! Cheers, Christine > http://www.caguila.com/pdmllit/index.html > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
