The Hemingway grounds include a wedding area, including a white arch very similar to the one in our Texas backyard, installed for Brett and Leanna’s backyard wedding.  We had to take advantage of a photo opportunity!

Elizabeth Taylor wears a gem around her neck and poses on a chunk of wood, whenever people approach the home.  Olivia protects Hemingway’s photographs in the book store, and many other leading ladies and men roam Hemingway’s grounds.

The legacy of Hemingway’s love for his cats carries on and the  generation of cats remaining have a permanent home here in Key West.  Their  accommodations visible  throughout the estate are built with obvious love and respect for their independent mentality.

A Farewell to Arms; The Old Man and the Sea; For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises are amongst his better-known creations.

His writing studio was unique and tropical–an upper room adorned with natural light from windows in every direction.  His black typewriter still sits on a round table at the center of his room.  Guides repeatedly emphasized “his life as he lived it” and not his untimely death.

Thirst came upon us following our walk back from Hemingway’s Home, so we stopped at the Parrot Bar for a refresher.  There wasn’t any more room at the main bar, so we created our own space at the back of the room, sitting on some old bar stools.  We refreshed our thirst, while entertaining ourselves reading all of the wall paraphernalia—a large part of the history of  The Green Parrot Bar!  Terry enjoyed the Chicago Bear plaques, in particular, and readily pointed them out to her Minnesota Viking friend, Keith!