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Rob and I went up to visit my sister in Northampon MA this weekend. Rob actually had a shooting job up there, it's with a company he regularly works for, and it's way out of his normal shooting range, but they basically paid us to go visit my family and we'll never turn that down.

So while Rob was gone all day Saturday, and my Brother-in-Law was at a track meet the cross-country team he coaches, Molly took me to Historic Deerfield. HD is a group of historic houses and accompanying museum. Mostly the houses are shown by tours, where an ancient woman talks to you for an hour about things that sound just a bit off.  Molly isn't nearly as snarky as some of my other friends so we quickly found the house tours boring and only did one. 

HD does have a museum they built to house some of their collections, and they have an on-going exhibit of textiles, which they even allowed non-flash photography in. And I've been playing with my BIL's DSLR and let me tell you it takes WAY better pictures in low lighting!!! I took over 200 so I'll just include a few of my favorites here.

( A beautiful set of quilted stays )
( A lovely white muslin gown with tambour embroidery )
( A jacket that's the spitting image of the one in Costume Close-up )
( A really beautiful Robe Battante )
( And for the Embroidery Fans among us )

In total I took almost 200 pictures so if you want more details of an item or to see some lovely shoes you can go to the whole album on photobucket.