Local Color

We pulled out of our Ohio campground Tuesday morning in the face of what was predicted to be heavy rain and wind. I had been watching the radar over the past several hours and it looked like a reasonable chance to move so we decided to take off and see what happens. Well, the storm turned out to be a non-event. We ran into light rain a couple of times but nothing dramatic at all. It was only 182 miles so we arrived here in mid afternoon and set up in the driveway.

We have been fortunate that we have enjoyed really great weather on the whole trip back. The last couple of days have been overcast but the sun is just starting to appear today and it promises to be beautiful. Ever since we crossed over into Wisconsin and then into Michigan we have been able to observe the changing fall colors. While nowhere near peak, there are some stunning views none the less. We're really enjoying it.

While we were in Arizona I had the constant feeling of being out of place, like being in a foreign country without knowing the language. Now that we're back in the East the weather patterns and the plant species and the flow of the land is familiar and comfortable. It's a more peaceful feeling.

Archery season for deer has started this year around here. A customer brought in an eleven point buck yesterday to our daughter's husband's butcher shop. Our daughter's family has gotten three deer so far this year, two bucks and a doe. State law allows them to get as many as six apiece between gun and bow seasons but that's way more than they've got room for in the freezer. Each fall they clean out their freezer and give away whatever meat they have left over from the season before so we're bringing some back with us.

We'll hang out here until after the Columbus holiday and then start home but not in a straight line. We're going to take some country roads across the hills and into Virginia and wind up at Fredericksburg. Diane's great grand uncle is buried in the national cemetery there, a victim in the Battle of the Wilderness in the Civil War. We're going to visit his grave and get information on his unit and their campaign. Then it's home from there about mid week next week.