Amish in Shipshewana and Goshen

I went a little out of the way to pass through Shipshewana on the final leg of my trip to Goshen. Seeing Amish folk and their buggies evoked the familiar feeling of being back home. A few of these shots were taken through my windshield while driving ("car hunting" don't tell). Several others were made possible by brother Bruce maneuvering the car to an inconspicuous spot in the Walmart parking lot allowing me to use the zoom feature and a half rolled down window as a tripod.

Sunglasses on a lady buggy driver made that shot interesting for me. The loading of perishables into Igloos was the perfect answer to a question I'd never asked and the Huggies for a babies bottom brought a chuckle. Although it was nearly noon I went into the Auction Restaurant for a country breakfast and enjoyed the local folks around me being themselves, living lives so very different from mine and doing it happily. There was an atmosphere of fun in the air. I do wish I could have taken a picture of a table of four Amishmen on their cell phones but propriety held me back.

I did jazz up the color a lot on the Menno-Hof shot as the original was gloomy. Now it looks like a tricked out postcard!