7 October 2007
Sunday at TRF. It was hot & muggy and I was having none of it. I slept in a little, enjoying what I could from the weak A/C we have upstairs in the booth. But, then the phone call came. Seems the young lady that Marita Beth hired on Friday to work, suddenly caught ill and was at home. She wouldn't be in. So, I got up, begrudgingly, threw some clothes on and some coffee in, and did a wee bit of work. I wasn't much help, but I did manage to get Marita Beth's music organised so that the "booth music" is a little more pleasant. I then took a stroll to say hello to folks that I wanted to see but was unable to on Saturday. By the time I got back to the shop, I was hot, tired & cranky. Time to go. So I did. I stopped in Anderson again on the way home. I took more photos of the Grimes County courthouse and some photos of a dilapidated building that has intrigued me for years. But, what I chose to comment on was this photo of a fence:
This hand-made fence constrains the grounds of the Fanthorp Historic Inn. Apparently, Anderson was a stagecoach stop. The building was erected in 1834 and was alternately a mercantile establishment, the first post office in the region and latterly a hotel. Kenneth Lewis Anderson, the Vice-President of the Republic of Texas and, apparently, the namesake of the town took his final breath in the Fanthorp Inn. All of this information is on a stone tablet in front of the inn. I arrived during their one hour lunch break and was unable to actually visit the inn. I must remember to return. Anyway, I liked the way the wood grain works against the green grass and the distant trees. The sky got washed out, but in the insanely harsh sunlight that doesn't really suprise nor distress me.
Cheers.
~KR (7 October 2007)
Listening to:
Kykeon by Love Spirals Downwards
on Ardor
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode
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