Really Boring Pictures!

[jedishampoo]

Sorry if I haven't replied to everyone on the house post, yet, but I've been pretty busy this summer. :) Yesterday I did something I've never done before-- we went out to Shades State Park (about an hour and a half west of Indianapolis) and rented some tubes, then floated them down Sugar Creek, coolers full of beer and all. I have an insane sunburn, despite having slathered on sunscreen, but it was kind of fun and relaxing.

I took a few pics on the drive out with my iPhone. I am sure these are not postworthy, but for some reason, the Indiana farm country looked really pretty to me yesterday morning. I think it was the misty quality of the morning sunlight and the temperate air, or something, because driving home at 3:30 p.m. through blinding, humid sunlight while trying to protect my sunburn, everything looked a lot less magical. :) But even the farms looked pretty-- Indiana is at its best in June and July, when everything, everywhere, is green and growing. I'm sure sharpeslass will remember me saying at times, when I lived in Las Vegas, "I smell corn growing." I'd drive by some random desert spot and get this nostalgic whiff of growing corn. Well, in Indiana, you can smell all the corn growing that you want.

These were taken from my iPhone on Indiana 234, somewhere around Ladoga. I wish I'd taken pictures of some of the small towns along the way, too-- they're alternately pretty with their well-kept, Victorian-style main-street homes, or sad, with their dilapidated farms and empty downtowns. Maybe next time I will do that. I also wish I had pictures of the creek, but I'm really, really glad that I left my phone in the car, because it would have gotten dunked and ruined.










How was everyone else's weekend? :)

Comments

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

Thank you for looking!

Ha, there is a saying here-- you know you're a Hoosier when you understand the phrase "knee high by the Fourth of July." It's at least Kristen-high right now, and I'm 6'.

(A Hoosier is a person from Indiana, by the way.)

[lawless523.livejournal.com]

I'm somewhere between 5' 1" and 5' 2" and rapidly shrinking, so it's hard for me to judge height. XD

[rroselavy.livejournal.com]

Ohh, my dad always said that, but he was born and raised in NYC. Can he be an honorary Hoosier? :-)

Lovely pix, I've driven through northern Indiana on a couple of occasions, but it was so long ago that all I remember is how awful the smell was around Gary.

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

Well, first we have to find out if your dad can play Euchre. If so, then he's totally an honorary Hoosier. :)

Thank you! Northern Indiana is not so pretty... very, very, very flat, and full of industry (a la Gary). Though there are some dunes by Lake Michigan. :)

[minidrag33.livejournal.com]

XD I always tell my husband that saying: "knee high by the Fourth of July."

I remember my Dad telling me that when I was young.