These pictures Brian, they made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. They are the BEST yet! Thank you so much for posting them.
I think I love pictures so much because my imagination seems to fail me when it comes to the fabulous palaces and the lives these people lived. I just cannot picture it for myself.....and I will never make it there to see it for myself.
..Arleen
i'm exactly the opposite, but for the very same reasons.... i prefer floor plans because i enjoy creating the rooms in my head. i like looking down into the house; in my mind's eye, i can see the various residents moving from room to room, living out their day... (does that make any sense?).
there are, however, some buildings that absolutely draw me into them & (basically) envelope my interest.... this palace is
THE foremost of those. i love this place for many reasons. and it makes me unbelievably sad to think that, realistically, i'll never see it....never be able to touch the stone, never be able to see if the smell of the actual building is anything close to what i imagine it to be (a mixture of wood oil, musty upholstry & drapes, whatever the workers had for lunch.... and Time).
that's why the floorplans & images (old & new) are so important. they give life to a part of history that i'll never witness.
okay. now i'm depressed.
