winchester mystery house pics, at long last!
hey sara and fluffy (and to some extent ken)– remember when i said i would put up the october 2005 winchester mystery house pictures really fast compared to how long i usually take to put up pictures?
haha. suckers.
but yes, here they finally are.
for those unschooled in the horrors and wonders that comprise the winchester legend (and for those that want to see even more pics, behind the scenes), go here.
there was this odd little room floating off by itself that we never got to visit. i often wondered about it (due to the nature of the house you tend crisscross back and forth a bunch, so we passed it 2-3 times)
so the three general options for the nonsensical architecture are a) mrs winchester really hated ghosts; b) mrs winchester really hated her staff; c) mrs winchester was very bad at planning. i like b), but then you knew i would.
another “door to nowhere”
13 sink holes!
13 candles! (you’re just going to have to trust me on this- 6 arms, 2 on each arm, and one in the middle to make 13)
are there 13 spires too? i can’t remember. probably not; it seems likely from this picture that mrs winchester was a spire addict.
there were a ton of these “pseudo-courtyards” that didn’t make much sense
some of the pseudo-courtyards even had statues in them.
do you think her (few and far between, i’m sure) dinner guests waited to use their bathrooms at home?
i always knew i’d get a picture of sara in the shower someday…
fluffy and ken are too tall for this tour, apparently
do you know what is going on here? cupid is being attacked by pond animals. that is what is going on here.
spooky! and here i was just trying to get a picture of the stained glass. cosmic supernatural forces obviously were blocking my camera.
ok, these must be due to supernatural forces. i don’t know what these are all about.
as we left we realized a delorean club convention was going on. how cool is that? i want to join the delorean club.
sometimes i’m pretty sure only 2 people read this
but here are some nice pictures anyway.
squaw valley is a really beautiful place.
a little photoshoppy exaggeration; the skiing wasn’t this doomful.
i’ve started taking the pigs out in a pair, now that i’ve gotten more used to them and they’ve gotten more used to me (they still hate me though).
they do this a lot though. that’s stark hiding under scully as best she can.
and the cat came back…
family photo op!
the buddha could have been holding pigs instead of his own belly.
ken bonds with them too, of course 🙂
they’ve gotten way into certain vegetables, which makes me (and them) happy. they’re my first tier compost heap. stark goes insane for carrots and scully loves banana and seems very happy with spinach. and as you can see, they both like to eat melon. at the same time.
photo op ended when i scared them. this is a common scene here.
now that gidget is on summer vacation, she does more than just lie around and annoy me, you know:
she is also into literature. the book she’s reading now is called “achieving human understanding.”
and then there’s yoga.
and finally, patrolling the backyard.
the wisteria flowers are gone (along with the lovely scent and all the bees), but here’s a few shots of them i managed to get.
lotr cowtown
amusing chalk drawings (not ours)
a scale model of orthanc appeared nearby later in the day.
after a long day standing there and looking ominous, orthanc likes to go out for a good brewski.
i fight crime (witness the shiny new dagger)!
sadly, no colorful bras were bought.
sauron was kind of short. so was his weapon; i slipped it some enhancements.
little things like this made the festival worth it.
this is like, gandalf’s cousin or something.
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i can’t believe some people still call them freedom fries.
even more pictures here!
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