Posted in Amish areas, Holidays & Celebrations, Thanksgiving, tagged abundance, Amish, autumn, farm stands, gourds, Holmes Co., Ohio, produce, pumpkins, Thanksgiving on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
As we celebrate our bounty with gratitude this week, my thoughts go back to the trip my mother and I made to Holmes Co., Ohio, in October. I was impressed by how the Amish celebrate abundance from their fields. Their produce markets aren’t just crates of vegetables, mountains of pumpkins, and offhand stacks of bagged apples. [...]
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Posted in Amish areas, Just Rattling On, Sheep, Travels Here & There, tagged Amish, buggies, buggy, goats, Holmes County, Ohio, pumpkins, Sheep on October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Except for shopping (especially at the quilt fabric stores) and eating at the good “home cooking” restaurants, Mom and I have never gotten into the “tourist” aspect of Amish country in the Holmes Co., Ohio area. We never toured a recreated Amish homestead, took a buggy ride in the middle of traffic, or went to an [...]
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My mother and I just returned from two gorgeous days in Holmes Co., Ohio, also known as Amish Country. The weather was superb (although hot), the fields are still green as opposed to the dry, crinkly grass of drought-ravaged Southwestern Ohio, and bright leaf color is exploding into view.
I haven’t had a chance yet to [...]
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