2nd visit to Rockport

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2nd visit to Rockport

Postby Sparkle » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:29 pm

Remember Fulton House?
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They wouldn't let us use flash with our camera's so I don't have many good photos. This one made me of think of Carol Burnett's wonderful skit on Scarlet O'Hara. Remember she made a dress out of the drapes, complete with the curtain rods.
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Maybe I was tired, but this bed looked so comfortable. I love canopy beds.
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I hung back and managed to take the copper lined tub with my flash.
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Look how the wind blows constantly off the Gulf. It has made these Live Oaks all bend the same way.
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This tree is over 1000 years old. Think what the world was like when it started growing.
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Re: 2nd visit to Rockport

Postby asirimarco » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:36 pm

Good for you - I like the tub - doesn't it tick you off when you can't use the flash - some places I understand but...
love the old tree - think of how much it has seen.l
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Re: 2nd visit to Rockport

Postby rvgrammy1953 » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:01 pm

Geez, maybe I'll get Ernie to take a trip up to Rockport before we leave....looks like fun....thanks for the photos, Sparkle....
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Re: 2nd visit to Rockport

Postby Bethers » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:02 pm

OK - here are some of my pics from today. Starting with one the same as Sparkle's first shot in the house - let's see how they compare :)

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An upstairs bedroom - notice how the pictures are hung on the wall in this and the last picture. I love it - and if I ever lived in a stick house again, would probably follow this example. So kewl. And these are original to the house.

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Then light and ceiling in the entrance:

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OK, we didn't just go to Fulton Mansion, but one big of the BIG tree was enough so here's a few other pics from our day:

look carefully at this picture. All the little green parts of leaves? Well those are all moving - by ants carrying them. These ants were working soooooooooo hard.

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A statue on the water in Rockport:

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Sparkle and I found a house that we'd like someone to buy us. No, we didn't take a picture of it - but we happen to love the street it's on - and it has a main house and two little houses. We figure whoever buys it can have the main house - we'd each take one of the little ones :) Any of you want to buy us a house?

On that same street, here's a mailbox:

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Lori and Ernie - If you take the route I recommend for you when you leave, you'll go through Rockport.
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Re: 2nd visit to Rockport

Postby dpf » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:19 pm

Love the pictures! I remember that Carol Burnett skit....one of my favorites!
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Re: 2nd visit to Rockport

Postby avalen » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:01 pm

love the pictures, and I have to admit...............I love the mailbox!!
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Re: 2nd visit to Rockport

Postby snowball » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:28 am

that would be a fun house to tour. Thanks for the pictures. Can you imgine living 1,000 years? I can't what a world that tree has witnessed too bad it can't talk
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Re: 2nd visit to Rockport

Postby AlmostThere » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:53 am

Wonderful pictures, thanks for sharing.
That tree does look it's age. Who would have thought a tree will get gnarly and nubby like people when they get old? :P
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Re: 2nd visit to Rockport

Postby Cedar518 » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:51 pm

Great tour,... thanks so much for going back to that house. I was hoping you would.
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Re: 2nd visit to Rockport

Postby Liz » Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:21 pm

Neat place. Loved the trees....wonder why the grass is bending one way and the trees the opposite way? Another favorite was the leaf-bearing ants....I love to notice the "little things" too.
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