The trip to smicksburg

Why don't I take my camera with me when I travel? I got a digital one for Christmas so I could carry it with me in my purse and always have a camera. Today is one of those days I needed it and did not take it with me. I really was so angry at myself for this......

My daughter wanted me to make some jellies for her wedding. I do not have the time or the berries to make what she wanted so we decided to go to a town about 50 miles from here called Smicksburg. I knew Amish lived there but I thought it was assuming it was like here where they were few and scattered. I never dreamed that there would be one beautiful farm after another with Amish children playing in the yards and their wives hanging clothes while they worked the fields. As I rode, I thought I was back in the 1800's as I watched the farmers with horses plow the fields and the buggy's filled the road.

These people fascinate me. Their lifestyle does. I could never live as they do but I think it is so wonderful they can live without all the conveniences we have and still have a happy life. My daughter was with me and she said 'Mom, did it ever occur to you that some of our modern consciences are what causes alot of the stresses in our lives'. I imagine that is so.

"I think we would be happier without all our modern convenieces," she said.

I thought of life without my computer. As romantic as the Amish lifestyle seems, I know I am happier with my life as it is.

That time of the year again....

Spring is here finally. I love each season for it's various reasons. I love spring because the woods behind our home is filled with budding new flowers and babies of all shapes and sizes. A few years ago I witnessed the birth of a fawn much like the one in this pic that my hubby took a few years ago in the woods by our house. I heard a noise out in the field and turned on the spotlight and saw a doe and a wobbly kneed little fawn trying to stand as she cleaned the afterbirth off him or her. It was wonderful.

My husband walked up on this one and took it while it crouched down and pretended to sleep. The mother was a short way off with the twin to this one, hiding. Fawns have a natural instinct to blend in with their background and that is what he was doing....