Thanks, Mark! Much appreciated. Cheers, Christine
On Jun 29, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent album, Christine! Lots of great shots - the pots and pans and the > selfie stand out, great capture on the reenactor's face in Boston as well. > > Mark > > On 6/26/2014 2:30 AM, Christine Aguila 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
