Where I saw Archie and Peyton tossing a football
By: Carla
Tags: Archie Manning's house, architecture, Garden District homes, new orleans, new orleans architecture, photography, postaday2011
Category: Italianate
| Aperture: | f/3.5 |
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| Focal Length: | 6.7mm |
| ISO: | 64 |
| Shutter: | 1/0 sec |
| Camera: | u850SW,S850SW |
I wrote about this house quite some time ago when I happened to ride by on my bicycle and saw Archie and Peyton Manning enjoying tossing a football back and forth in the low-key way that dads and sons do. You can read the post about that day here.
I knew at the time it was Archie Manning’s house, but it was still a surprise to see them nonchalantly hanging out in the yard.
I finally snapped a photo of the house and of the green green grass in the yard on a recent cloudy day. Just picture Peyton and Archie right there . . .
NOLA Details 
[…] Well, not my neighborhood exactly – I took these pics in the French Quarter – but it’s still within bicycling distance! Just a little over a year ago I wrote a post about that Sesame Street song, “These are the people in your neighborhood”, and I told a little story about “the neighborhood” including walking past Archie Manning’s house and seeing him and Peyton tossing a football that day. You can read it here – and see a photo of the Manning house here. […]