Today, I'll show you more pictures from our visit to the Biltmore House and Gardens in Asheville, NC on October 4. If you have not ever been to Biltmore --you may not know that this is a HUGE estate... Not only can you visit that gorgeous home, or all of the many gardens, but there's also a winery, several nice restaurants, a huge inn, many shops for 'shop-til-you-drop' shopping, and an entire area called the Antler Hill Village which includes a farm. There is just ALOT to see there!!! It's impossible to see everything in one day...
SO--on the day we were there, we chose to visit the Antler Hill Village (or at least part of it).. On this day, we visited the old barn (built about 1902), the woodworker shop, the smithy shop, etc. It turned out to be a GREAT day at Biltmore...
The picture above was taken BEFORE we got to Antler Hill Village. We were still at the lagoon area. George took this great Autumn photo of the French Broad River --which runs through the Biltmore grounds. Isn't it pretty?????
AND---this is where George stood to take that previous picture. They say that photographers will do most anything to get a good picture. Ya think?????? ha
Now we are at the Antler Village. This is a picture of what used to be the old barn on the working estate... As I said above, this barn was built in 1902. They showed an awesome video inside the barn about life for the family in the early 1900's If you ever get to the Antler Village, be sure and watch the video.
Look at Farmer Adams on that wagon... All he needs is a corncob pipe and a straw hat, don't you think????? OH---I guess he will need a horse to take him on his way!!!! ha ha
I liked this 'grass' horse... Neat, huh?
Now---George switched over to the tractor... That is an old Ford tractor---and he thinks that his Dad's neighbor may have had an old one similar to that one once...
I am standing behind a sculpture of Cornelia Vanderbilt (the only daughter of Edith and George Vanderbilt) with her 'best friend'--Cedric, a 200 pound St. Bernard dog.
We enjoyed our visit to the Antler Hill Village at Biltmore... BUT---there's more to come about our experiences that day!!!! Just wait until tomorrow to see what else we did on this day!!!!!
Have a wonderful day.
Hugs,
Betsy
