Todd's parents are visiting us for a few days. We went to the Edgar Allan Poe museum in Richmond today--an appropriate Halloween activity, I think.
The museum is set in and around the oldest house in Richmond, a tiny stone house built in the mid-1700s. There's an old courtyard behind, and several more old brick buildings that you walk through to see the Poe displays.
The weather was perfect for gloomy photos--muggy and rainy.
There's a bust of Poe tucked back inside this arched structure, very atmospheric.
Here's me with the brooding genius lurking behind me. I forgot to take the earbuds out of my ears--we each got a little mp3 player with the audio tour to listen to as we walked around.
The courtyard was really beautiful, even in the rain.
After grabbing a quick lunch, we went down to the river district and took a boat ride on the old canal that's been preserved downtown.
The view looks bleak, but the history was fascinating. This canal runs right through the heart of Richmond--it's been here since the earliest days of the city. The warehouses behind the railroad tracks are replacements for all the warehouses that burned down when Richmond was evacuated by the Confederate army at the very end of the Civil War.
3 comments:
You have some great photos Janelle. Makes me want to go visit there. :) The picture of you with the earbuds made me realize that us scrappers provide yet another service to our fellowmen--making sure they look as good as possible in photos. I mean seriously, is there any way you wouldn't have noticed the earbuds if YOU were behind the lens? ;)
That does look like the perfect Halloween-time tour!
I think that all of our trick or treaters must have gone south, because we had hardly any!
Very cool! I like the arches. (And the turtles!)
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