Monday, September 22, 2008

9/22/08 Amish Country

Lancaster County has close to 30,000 old order Amish and the country side here is landscaped with beautiful farms scattered across the rolling hills. Imagine the clip clop of horses pulling buggies amidst the occasional semi truck or even our motor home. What a contrast. Our campsite is next to two different Amish farms. We’ve enjoyed watching them farm with horse teams and unusual equipment wishing we knew more about it. Our fist day here, we watched a father and son working the field just on the other side of the creek from our camp spot. The longer I watched, the more I thought the creek seemed to be a sort of chasm of time. I stood in the present, but across the creek I was transported back in time.

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