Ode to My Birthday!!!
So, as you lovely people know, yesterday was my birthday!! Lea took me to the Winchester Mystery House:
Winchester Mystery House is an extravagant maze of Victorian craftsmanship - marvelous, baffling, and eerily eccentric, to say the least. Tour guides must warn people not to stray from the group or they could be lost for hours! Countless questions come to mind as you wander through the mansion - such as, what was Mrs. Winchester thinking when she had a staircase built that descends seven steps and then rises eleven?
Some of the architectural oddities may have practical explanations. For example, the Switchback Staircase, which has seven flights with forty four steps, rises only about nine feet, since each step is just two inches high. Mrs. Winchester arthritis was quite severe in her later years, and the stairway may have been designed to accommodate her disability.
I'd never been, but it's close enough that all my friends have been, and my cousins used to go, even my brother's been. Poor Lea's been a few times, but that's why I asked for it for my birthday - I knew she'd go yet again only if it was my birthday request.
( What's his name? Chester? And she'll go, No no no it's Chandler. And he'll go Whatever hahahahahaHA! )
This is really weird, I'd never been, nor had I properly ever seen the House in photos, but I have an unfinished drawing a did a few months ago of a house that looks eerily similar!!
( Maybe I'm channeling Mrs. Winchester's spirit... )
Thanks for all your lovely birthday wishes and gifs and paintings!!! They meant a lot - no really, they did. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Love, Jamie
Winchester Mystery House is an extravagant maze of Victorian craftsmanship - marvelous, baffling, and eerily eccentric, to say the least. Tour guides must warn people not to stray from the group or they could be lost for hours! Countless questions come to mind as you wander through the mansion - such as, what was Mrs. Winchester thinking when she had a staircase built that descends seven steps and then rises eleven?
Some of the architectural oddities may have practical explanations. For example, the Switchback Staircase, which has seven flights with forty four steps, rises only about nine feet, since each step is just two inches high. Mrs. Winchester arthritis was quite severe in her later years, and the stairway may have been designed to accommodate her disability.
I'd never been, but it's close enough that all my friends have been, and my cousins used to go, even my brother's been. Poor Lea's been a few times, but that's why I asked for it for my birthday - I knew she'd go yet again only if it was my birthday request.
( What's his name? Chester? And she'll go, No no no it's Chandler. And he'll go Whatever hahahahahaHA! )
This is really weird, I'd never been, nor had I properly ever seen the House in photos, but I have an unfinished drawing a did a few months ago of a house that looks eerily similar!!
( Maybe I'm channeling Mrs. Winchester's spirit... )
Thanks for all your lovely birthday wishes and gifs and paintings!!! They meant a lot - no really, they did. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Love, Jamie