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]

Parts of Idaho are certainly like the prairies, but other areas (Coeur D'Alene, for example) are not at all. It's amazing how much difference in the landscape you can come across by driving across a State.

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

Well, you've got so much land in the Americas, haven't you? A couple of US states must be wider across than the UK at its widest - and we've got a lot of geographic change going on.

Actually, what I really liked about Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming was how the landscape didn't change that rapidly. The scale of things took my breath away.

[7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Okay, then you'll have to drive across Saskatchewan sometimes. Oregon, Washington and Idaho are riveting with their variety of vista compared to our poor old Canadian breadbasket.

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

Ha! I feel the same way about the middle US. When I drove the 2000 miles moving from Las Vegas to Indiana, it was gorgeous through Utah and western Colorado, and then a long bit of NOTHING FARM NOTHING from eastern Colorado through Kansas (417 miles of Kansas alone-- it felt endless!) and Missouri and Illinois. It didn't become pretty to me until I crossed the border into Indiana. It could have been homesickness, but then I think the drive through the western half of Indiana on I-70 is considered a "scenic route." :)

I'd still love to see more of Canada, prairie and all. ♥

[7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com]

It may be that Indiana is more like Manitoba, which is more scenic than (southern) Saskatchewan (northern Saskatchwan has more lakes, rivers and woodlands.) Those prairies can be endless though. Hypnotic.