TIL

Lovely signage in someone's front yard

 

TIL is the acronym for "today I learned"~am sure that I learned a lot of this when I toured Philadelphia and learned about the Continental Congress gatherings.  But, on my history outing to Lee Fendall House

I learned about the Lee lineage in Virginia.  I won't repeat it all here, but a fun factoid is that two Lee brothers help write and were the only brothers who signed the Declaration of Independence~one of whom was Robert E. Lee's father. 

I also learned about the telescope architecture that was popular in Baltimore in the late 1700s and in which style this house was built.   The history of the house was fascinating and complicated, as was the Lee family.  Have to wonder what "Immigrant Richard" as they called the first one here in the 1600s would think of this week's news.

Some sparkly dew drops~or, maybe the grass is sweating too? 

It seems that canned food was just hitting the States in the mid-1800s and if you wanted to prove that you were wealthy enough to buy~say, condensed milk~but didn't want the goopy, ugly can at the table. Voila~this nifty china cover in which to place your can.

They still use this piano for Christmas events/parties.  There was the exact same model in one of my studios in Austin.

Back for lemongrass pho at the same cafe.

Just a pretty walkway with flickering gas lamps.   Really wanting it to storm and break this drippy air.