small vacation snippet

I was reminded that this blog has become somewhat image-poor...which is true, because mostly I write it for me and didn't really think anyone was visiting! But this is a good time to post a little photo journal of our visit to the Edward Gorey Museum in Yarmouthport last week. Mr. Gorey lived there for the last 13 years of his life after leaving NYC, and it has been turned into a lovely and quirky storehold of his works. No flashes were allowed, so I got the pictures I got...but it was really something to imagine what that amazing brain created in the house...

The front of the house, sign included. The foliage surrounding the house was much trimmed, our tour guide informed us, as it was a fire hazard for a museum to be that swaddled in branches, but I imagine the house was a regular Halloween haunted house when Gorey lived there.

One of Gorey's fur coats. Apparently, when he became enlightened by the anti animal cruelty movement, he stopped wearing the coats, and even allowed a family of raccoons to live in his attic.

A real human skull, complete with glasses. Not Gorey!

The living room, complete with Mystery! backdrop, Dracula sheets, and several of Gorey's stuffed bears. He had stuffed creatures all over the house. My favorite was Figbash, a four-appendaged creature that he could shape into all the letters of the alphabet. Unfortunately no flash meant a crappy Figbash picture.

Finally, the favorite...

The Gorey cat! An approximately 27 lb rescue. Named after one of Gorey's creations. The best greeter ever.

And outside...

A sculpture of the Doubtful Guest. Awesome. Note tennis shoes!