A few pictures from Colonial Williamsburg

[marginaleye]

I'm at Colonial Williamsburg right now with my wife and her family. I took a few pictures earlier today. Apart from cropping them (not particularly aggressively) and scaling them down to a reasonable size for displaying online, I haven't touched them with Photoshop. This first picture was taken at the front window of the apothecary's shop,

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[xse99]

Brings back memories of elementary-school family vacation.

[marginaleye]

I had been to Williamsburg once before (but when? I can't remember! In the fairly recent past, I think -- post-Yale, anyway), and I don't recall much being different -- but, then, I suppose that's kind of the point.

[ddreslough]

Beautiful, and great lighting!! Hope you guys had a great holiday. Mine's not over, and I need to recover. :)

[marginaleye]

Thank you!

Mine's not over, and I need to recover.

Our holiday is still underway, too -- we're both a bit "over-socialized" after seeing my family for Christmas and then going on a post-Christmas trip to Williamsburg with her family, and are thus taking the day off to hide in our hotel room while everyone else goes to see the nearby Jamestown colony site. This is why I always try to take an extra day off between getting back from a trip and going back to work.

The planishing stakes at the silversmith's shop, b.t.w., reminded me of pounding out knee and elbow cops on that old railroad spike over at Sam's house -- remember that? Goodness, that was a long time ago...

[gigglingwizard]

I like these.

[marginaleye]

I thought you might. I spent a couple of hours visiting just three or four of the handicrafts demonstrations, and tried to talk to the staff members giving demonstrations in the otherwise-slack times between bigger clumps of my fellow tourists, and thus picked up a few interesting bits of information (e. g. that most of the books sold by the bookbinder were blank, were used mainly as ledgers, and sold for roughly the equivalent of a price of a fairly expensive laptop computer today) (the bookbinder's shop was the most interesting to me, since I had taken a course on archival conservation methods in library school, and made a book, from scratch, for a class assignment).

[marginaleye]

I'm glad you liked it! Of the three which I posted (there were a couple more that didn't make the cut) both my wife and I liked that one the most, too. I took that picture about a dozen times (I'm sure the costumed park staff member in the shop found it puzzling and/or amusing), and then fussed over which one "worked" best.