Project 365
Jun. 16th, 2007 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayreFort Ticonderoga, mostly.
Bald eagles! Having a bad feather day, but still-- bald eagles! Well, no-- ospreys, as a couple of folk have pointed out below. Still cool!
The view south from Fort Ticonderoga
A British soldier wandering around the fort.
Cannon on the fort walls. And now you get a story... Fort Ticonderoga was abandoned for the 19th century-- a tourist attraction, but no effort made to preserve it. In the early 20th century, the Pell family acquired the land and began restoring it, out of their own funds. As the hubby and I toured the fort, we noticed something odd, and finally asked a docent: If the fort has always been in French, English or American hands-- why are there so many Spanish cannons on the walls? Her answer? "Apparently Mr. Pell liked them."
I took this pic for the kidlet, of course-- it's a combination tying ring and mounting block, for those arriving on horseback, in the King's Garden below the fort.
Bald eagles! Having a bad feather day, but still-- bald eagles! Well, no-- ospreys, as a couple of folk have pointed out below. Still cool!
The view south from Fort Ticonderoga
A British soldier wandering around the fort.
Cannon on the fort walls. And now you get a story... Fort Ticonderoga was abandoned for the 19th century-- a tourist attraction, but no effort made to preserve it. In the early 20th century, the Pell family acquired the land and began restoring it, out of their own funds. As the hubby and I toured the fort, we noticed something odd, and finally asked a docent: If the fort has always been in French, English or American hands-- why are there so many Spanish cannons on the walls? Her answer? "Apparently Mr. Pell liked them."
I took this pic for the kidlet, of course-- it's a combination tying ring and mounting block, for those arriving on horseback, in the King's Garden below the fort.
