Snap By Snap

My mother-in-law introduced me to a saying: Get the stink blowed off! This is defined as the need to shake things up, get out of the house, and do something different. I'm convinced that if I had a strong enough microscope, I could look at my husband's DNA and see a gene engraved with the blow the stink off trait engraved on it. That man is always ready to get out and go do something different the usual routine. And so it happened this past weekend that we did just that.

Most of August it was stinking hot and dry (even the weatherman uses this terminology. It's the only fitting descriptor for 94 degrees and 90% humidity with no precipitation), but Saturday was only in the 80's. Practically balmy. So we picked up Mark's parents and drove towards McCormick's Creek State Park.


We have driven all over the country the last two summers and seen all kinds of terrain, but a drive through Indiana's countryside is still breathtaking. The seed corn is drying on the stalks, the grass is mostly brown, the soybeans are deep green, and the trees are a beautiful green - even where they have begun to fade toward fall.
Before we got to McCormick's Creek, we turned at the sign for Cataract Falls  - a place we'd never stopped before. Did I mention that we'd had a drought for the previous four weeks? Cataract might be the wrong name for this time of year. The picture above is what it looks like normally (not my photo). However, the picture below was what it looked like on Saturday. We obviously need to go back n the fall!


One plus for Cataract Falls is that it boasts a covered bridge. I never get tired of these silly things. Maybe because they are on the list of things I didn't see much of (or any?) in California. This one was built with $2000 worth of supplies. Major wow. Can you even build a deck for that now? Another interesting fact was that the reason they covered bridges was because covered bridges lasted much longer than the naked sort. I always thought it had something to do with the snow! Silly California girl.