Too weird - a connection popped up - two from today

Too weird - a connection popped up when I downloaded my photos.

Clueless about when it disappears again, let me thank you for your kind comments about my other shots - and here are 2 quick ones from a plantation we just toured.

The lady in the hoop skirt was our guide. It was raining like crazy over the entire area.
The oaks, the acreage, the gardens and the plantings take $ 300 000 a year to maintain. But this plantation did not preserve the slave quarters. I liked the oaks, but of all the things we did this one was a disappointment.

The girl and her gown are absolutely darling. Thank you! I wonder why they didn't preserve the slave quarters. We had one on my high school campus, that used to be part of a plantation in Maryland. It was a really spooky place, kept as a reminder that once upon a time we weren't allowed an education and to seize ours and run with it.

These are great pictures. I like how the young woman is centered on the trees (symmetry!). :bounce:
If you ever get to Greenfield Village at Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan, they have a preserved slave 'house'. It's quite an eye opener to see how many people would have to live in such a small space.........

Oak Alley then I know exactly what you are talking about disappointment wise. Not enough time to explore on your own and well the tour wasn't all that either. I would of loved to been able to explore the ground. The up side to our trip was following the slave cabin down the road on the way back. Someone was working on another of the old plantation and they wanted to put the slave quarters back as much as they could. Never was told who or the name of the plantation and have wondered if they were able to keep at it after Katrina. It is good to see those oaks have survived (even if it isn't Oak Alley.)

The trees look like a painted back drop in your first photo. I hope you are having a great time.

was a simple tour. The plantation next door had the slave cabins. I saw them from the road and wanted to jump out to go there on the way back after learning the Oak Alley Plantation did not have any left but the driver was against it.
The Oak Alley people spent their money sanitizing things and on the quarter million + a year yard mowing.

The name you forgot: Jefferson Plantation. It just bought the plantation (forgot name) next door, and hopefully will combine them into a tour that shows something other than girls in hoop skirts and wonderful oaks.
In the Oak Alley Plantation we toured among all the furnishings in many rooms on two floors there was only one single item, a cradle, from the original house.
And they did not set us up into the attic where the widow's walk is. Sheesh!

We lost a good number of the ancient oaks during the huge hurricane here in 2004.
Very heartbreaking.

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