I can remember not too long ago, while laying in bed off of work with a pulled back, where just by chance, looking out our front windows, I saw a suspicious vehicle parked with it's driver pointing "something" at our home. A flash of light and the convertible Audi left.
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| A quick photo of our tourist checking out her photos on her camera. This photo was taken through our storm window's screen. |
This past weekend, it happened again. On her way home, my wife called to ask me to help her unload her car upon arrival. As I waited for her to pull into the driveway, I noticed a gray Toyota Camary/Honda Accord with it's hazard lights on, driving slowly up a parallel street, the same street seen in the photo above. They passed our house then stopped and rolled backward down the hill. I thought they had mechanical problems or perhaps, God fearing, their brakes had went. Yet, they stopped. The driver opened his window and snapped photos of our home.
How peculiar. This happened last spring as well, except the driver was female and her vehicle was a dark blue convertible Audi (see the photo above). These are the only two events that I've witnessed of someone photographing our home. Perhaps there were numerous other times that we are unaware of.
I find it fascinating that of all the homes on our street of 18th century origins, passersby have the want to photograph our home.
I realize that I am putting a lot of information out there with this blog in regards to our home so I guess some notoriety comes with the territory assuming of course these photographers are aware of such written works of art. However, I am pleased that people find our home interesting and photogenic. A sense of pride blossoms within when events such as this occur or when a couple walking by make a comment as well. With as much stress as owning a 260+ year old home can be, having someone say, "I love your house!" is, well, awesome.
If you do happen to see an overweight man grunting while setting a field stone wall or screaming colorful four letter words after doing some idiotic task, like, I don't know, dropping 60 pounds of aluminum on his toe, feel free to say "HI" and chit-chat. Despite an angry strained face or a sudden profane outburst, I don't bite.
