This is probably the best picture I took on our mini vacation to Washington. We went on the monument tour on the HOTEST day of the trip. We were pooped by the end of the tour, but the light was perfect for picture taking. This was taken at the Jefferson Memorial!
Friday, February 1, 2008
Fam_CaptialBuilding
Fam_CaptialBuilding
Originally uploaded by natalieosbornesmith
Here are Mom, Aunt Pat, and Jennifer in front of the Captial Building. The city was working on the Mall, so the grass was all messed up. It still reminded me of the tree lined parks in Paris around the Eiffel Tower. Hmm... You think the city planners had French influence?
Mom and Me @ the Capital Building
Here we are at the back of the capital building in Washington DC! The vista in the back was beautiful. That's the Washington Memorial in the background. Washington is one of the most beautiful capitals I've ever been to, and it's SUPER easy to get around!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Typical Staircase!
OK! That's definitely a tight squeeze!
This is a typical Midieval staircase found in castles throughout Europe. This is from Yeats Tower (Thoor Ballylee).
This is a typical Midieval staircase found in castles throughout Europe. This is from Yeats Tower (Thoor Ballylee).
Thoor Ballylee - Yeats Castle
The tower was made famous by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The tower had to be restored before Yeats could live in it. By the summer of 1919 Yeats and his wife and daughter had moved in.
The tower or castle that Yeats bought was a sixteeneth century norman castle built by the family de Burgo, or Burke. It consisted of four floors with one room on each, connected by a spiral stone stairway built into the seven-foot thickness of the massive outer wall. Each floor had a window overlooking the river which flowed alongside. At the top here was a flat roof reached by a final steep flight of steps from the floor below. The picture is of my husband, my mom and me on that flat roof. The stair case is VERY narrow getting up to the top, but boy is it worth climbing all those stairs!
The tower or castle that Yeats bought was a sixteeneth century norman castle built by the family de Burgo, or Burke. It consisted of four floors with one room on each, connected by a spiral stone stairway built into the seven-foot thickness of the massive outer wall. Each floor had a window overlooking the river which flowed alongside. At the top here was a flat roof reached by a final steep flight of steps from the floor below. The picture is of my husband, my mom and me on that flat roof. The stair case is VERY narrow getting up to the top, but boy is it worth climbing all those stairs!
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