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

[7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com]

Very lovely! I particularly love the one with image reflected in your rearview mirror. It encapsulates a fascinating sense of continuity and 'distortion of the past'.

Indiana is so much like the prairie part of Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba, all those flat, fertile plains so verdant with crops in June and July, but golden or brown for the rest of the year.

Jann Martel once said that the endless skies and distant horizons gave a sense of infinite possibilities to people who lived on the Plains, whereas the mountains tended to hem one in with limitations. I don't know if that is necessarily true, but I get a sense of that when I'm in flat farming country.

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was pleased with that rearview mirror pic also. :) And you're right-- starting in late August or so, the rain slows down and the corn and grass go brown and it's not the same at all. In winter it's just gray, ew.

You know, it's strange, but I feel almost the opposite about the sky-- that the sky seems smaller and things seem a lot closer in Indiana than in the west, which feels to me so much more big-sky country. Driving just outside Las Vegas would sometimes give me vertigo, the sky was so huge. I think it was the sheer size of the mountains that gave me that feeling.

[7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com]

The landscape in the SW desert is completely unlike anything you find in Canada, except maybe for the badlands around Drumheller or Cypress Hills.

How odd that the sky seems closer in Indiana. Maybe the ceiling tends to be lower. People have said that European skies feel really 'close', but I never noticed that. I'm used to the prairie sky being absolutely enormous. To the point where culumonimbus clouds on the horizon look like tiny little puffballs.