Crazy lady part 2...

Some pictures from the Winchester House:

Flowers in the garden

A view of some of the confusing layout from a balcony in another part of the house

The rather creepy-looking grand ballroom -- what's really strange is that Mrs. Winchester was practically a hermit. She rarely had visitors, and besides her servants and the workers building the house, the only other person who spent any significant time with her was her niece (who, of course, had her own bizarre wing of the house...). So what would they need a grand ballroom for??

Stairs that lead to nowhere. Anybody believe in ghosts? You always hear on those ghost hunter shows that spirts show up as "orbs" in photographs. Check out all the orbs! Spirits all over the place! Or maybe it was just dusty on that staircase... but that sounds so much less spooky...

The tour guide kept saying that Mrs. Winchester was really ahead of her time -- she came up with innovative ways to heat the giant house, and ways to conserve water, and apparently, ways to keep sneaky burglers at bay... (this was probably funnier if you were on the tour -- I saw the ADT sticker just a few seconds after hearing "Mrs. Winchester was so ahead of her time..." It struck me as funny... but sometimes I'm rather easy to amuse...)