 Picspampost!
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Apr. 6th, 2008 @ 01:40 pm 
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Hey! ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mwyaren and marared! I finally got the things developed and uploaded. *wg*
For the general amusement and potential edification of my darling flist, I present photos from Baltimore, January 2008 (Poe Toast!) and Lexington, KY, March of 2008 (last weekendish, for those of you following at home). There are many! Many, as in: close to fifty! Erm. Dialup type users (if there are any of you left at all), you might not want to click the cut unless you have some time to waste.
So, then:
Baltimore, MD. The Poe Toast (which was rather a bust), January of 2008.
In which our intrepid explorer got together and explored intrepidly with the abovementioned marared and mwyaren! We were intrepid! And very, very cold!
These are all horribly grainy. Suck. The camera I was using that night has no flash, and the streetlamps just weren't quite enough. Ah, well.
Looking down the street, just outside the gates of Westminster churchyard, where Poe is buried.
Ze gates! Spoooooky.
A glimpse through the gates into Westminster churchyard.
Poe's gravestone, which is, I am led to believe, not marking Poe's actual grave. That lies, apparently, at the back of the churchyard, and is either unmarked, or v. unobtrusively marked, and is also where the Poe Toaster leaves his annual tribute.
Westminster church, with cold people freezing to death in front of the gates.
Side note: I swear to God I can frame a shot better than this. The actual print has the entirety of the steeple in the frame, however, the images saved to CD for me are inexplicably cropped in strange places. I am annoyed, but there is sadly nothing I can do about this save rant and rave and scream at the uncaring denizens of the local Voldemart that processed my pics for me. Grr. Next time, it's the local place, and I don't care that they'll charge me three times as much.
The menus at the Paper Moon Cafe are old children's book covers with the menu pages inside. I was charmed.
I was not so charmed by the curio cabinet next to our table that contained nothing but dolls. I know there are some of you out there who know precisely what I'm on about.
The rest of the decor was equally charming and creepy. I do love this place. Mannequins and toys and much, much colour everywhere. The photos do not do it justice. Mostly cos I suck with a camera.
Looking up from the bottom of the stairwell that leads to the loo.
I have pics of Mommeleh and Kimpy, too, but I won't post them unless they two are okay with it. :)
Last weekend, I ventured to visit evilmcevilton in Lexington, Kentucky, and (predictably) spent much of my time crawling about in the local cemetary. Mmmm. Pretty old graves. Mmmm. I snapped a couple of rolls at Ashland, too. I share.
Picses!
We drove out to horse country, and on the way we crossed a bridge with old stone railings. I'm not sure what the signpost references.
The following set are all from the Lexington cemetary.
(Still in the Lexington cemetary. I'm not sure if this statue is meant to be Sappho or Terpsichore, or who, but there is no name or epitaph attached to it. I assume it's decoration rather than an actual monument. I think I fell in love with it: certainly I took enough pictures. xD)
Again... I swear I can frame a shot; these were also inexplicably cropped by the hideous minions of Hades that developed my prints and plopped them on CD for me.
Back to nonthemed pics of the graveyard in general...
The Henry Clay monument is an imposing thing. It's so much taller than you think it is, looking at pictures. I mean, wow. Just- wow. Talk about a memorial. I want one like that when I croak.
Again with the gratuitous cropping. -.- Suck.
...See what I mean, though, about tall?
Picked his nose with the telephoto. I am totally four years old.
And now... back to your regularly scheduled lack of theme.
And now: Ashland.
The house itself. It's not as big as it looks from this angle: given the time period and Henry Clay's resources, it's actually a fairly modest household.
To the garden! Or so I assume. Poor tree. :( That must chafe.
Garden gate.
Tea party!
I loved the sundial. So did Abbey. /inside joke
Anyone know what these are? I'm sure it's something fairly obvious, but I am a 'tard.
You see the coolest stuff when you look down.
Probably x-posted at some point soon to deathly_decayed and Strange and Savage. |
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