Saturday Stroll
I decided to go on a walk today, which ended up turning into this 4 hour-ish journey venturing around my neighborhood and the parks in the area. I had planned to go sometime this weekend but all morning had 0 motivation and was only sitting around on the couch feeling sad from the events of this past week. I decided to force myself to get up, get dressed, and dragged myself outside, much against my own will (and believe me I protested A LOT) lol ~ I ended up being really glad that I did.
I went to see some of the trees that are blooming first, then visited the parks, and after that I decided to walk around some of the streets behind my house where there are a lot of old Victorian era houses built in the 1800's. Old Louisville is pretty much made up of these huge beautiful houses that have really cool architecture, big tree-lined streets, and beautiful gardens. You can Google "Old Louisville" actually and see some way better pictures than mine under images. It's really such a beautiful neighborhood, and while I do miss Chicago often, I think this is one of the prettiest places I've lived. Despite being right next to downtown, walking around here is very peaceful and there's so many cool things to look at.
There was a street I can see from my apartment windows (I'm 17 floors up so I can see pretty much everything) that was lined with blooming white trees I wanted to visit so that was my first stop. Below in the spoiler are pictures from that. I initially thought these were Dogwood trees but turns out they are called Callery Pear trees.
These are from my walk down a couple of the streets in Old Louisville. The Magnolia trees are already blooming and I love those ~ I really like the architecture on a lot of these older houses too. The details are really cool to look at and I noticed some of them even have things like Gargoyles on them and just really intricate patterns carved into them. I love those huge round windows a lot of houses in this style have too ^^
Below is one of the Victorian mansions in the area known as the "Pink Palace" and it's part of the ghost tours around here (Old Louisville has ghost stories about pretty much every single house lol). Apparently there is a ghost named "Avery" who lives in the home and is a protective and peaceful spirit. He usually appears to residents to help them. Two such stories I've heard were 1 a woman was taking a bath in an apartment in the basement part of the house when Avery appeared to her. She freaked out (naturally) and jumped out of the bath just a few minutes before a cement block came through the window because robbers were trying to break in and the block would have hit her. Another story is Avery appeared to residents right before a fire broke out leading them to the kitchen were the fire had started and they were able to put it out before it did any major damage.
This is another supposed haunted Victorian Era mansion called the Conrad-Caldwell House, or just the Conrad Castle. I actually did a historic ghost tour of this place back at Halloween and it was super interesting. It was built between 1893-1895 and it's currently a museum. I'm not sure how many ghosts are supposed to be in the house, but I've heard somewhere around 9 different past residents haunt the home. They've done several TV shows such as Ghost Hunters on the property as well which is kinda neat.
That's all I have for now, hopefully you enjoyed looking at the pictures. I'm thinking about taking a walk to the riverfront tomorrow, so I may have another batch of photos to share 
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