We didn’t actually get to bed until about 1:30 AM, we were working on the images from the last Wedding that we shot. So, 5:00 came a bit too early and then 6:00 – it wasn’t looking like I was going to make it. Around 8:00 AM our little dog Mi Mi came busting into our room to get me up so she could ‘do her morning business’ – as they say. As I walked down the steps from our back deck, I knew that I’d really be mad at myself if I didn’t take advantage of the great weather that was awaiting me. It was unseasonably cool for this area of the country at this time of year, and not a cloud in the sky!
I’ve been wanting to take some photographs of the Destrehan Plantation House. Although, to be honest, I’ve never been and had no idea how to get there! The town we live in has a drawbridge that connects us (the most direct route) to the rest of the New Orleans civilization – of course on this morning, when I’m racing the sun – it was broken! So, I had to circle around the LONG way! After driving for while I realized that I needed to figure out where I was going. A little search on my trusty iphone revealed that I was headed in the right direction.
Once I found the Plantation I took a few shots from outside the fence. Then decided to go ahead and take the tour. To say that it was ‘slow’ at the plantation house would be an understatement – it was just a couple from New Jersey and Me!
I followed the ‘group’ for awhile and then just struck out on my own – again not wanting the sun to get too high in the sky before I got the shots that I came to get.
A couple shots of the front of the house:
The front porch area:
One of the bedrooms inside the house, looking like it did back in the 1800s:
There are many other structures on the property,
this one that caught my eye - for some reason:
