Wading the Marsh

As an Indian woman wades through a marsh in Madras,

a flock of white birds flies gracefully up and across her path.

 

As you read this we will be leaving Spring Mill State Park in Indiana, where we have been attending the Jenkins Family Reunion, the first one since 2017. It was a great time.

When my parents were living it was an annual affair, held on or near their anniversary. On the occasion of their 65 anniversary in 1999 I think almost every one of their descendants was present. Counting spouses, around a hundred people.

Things became somewhat sporadic in this century, especially after 2010. However, my sons Rob and Don and some of their cousins have undertaken to make this a more regular event.

From here we plan to go to northern Michigan, then across to Wisconsin, Minnesota, and maybe, points west.

Monday evening:

Sorry this is late. But it is still Monday! We had no cell phone or internet service for the four days we were at Spring Mill, so we are both suffering from withdrawal. Also, I wasn't able to post the blog this morning, as I like to do. 

We had rather a long, difficult day of travel through a lot of road construction around Indianapolis and including some minor (we hope) trouble with the truck, and are now at a campground in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

(The photograph was made with an Olympus OM camera, an 85mm f2.8 Olympus Zuiko lens, and Fujichrome 100D slide film.)

Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone

My book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia, is now out of print, although copies are apparently still available from Amazon, and possibly other sources. The second edition is now in the editing stage and is scheduled to be released on December 6th.