Spring at home
iaian7 » blog John Einselen, 27.04.08This weekend I got to drive down to Indiana and visit my family! I also got sidetracked Friday night while driving through Michigan… somehow seeing the signs for I69, but completely missing the exit. After missing an alternate route with a poorly marked detour, I gave up and by midnight was in Berrien Springs, where my brother goes to college (we live on opposite sides of the state; he on the west side, me on the east). We didn’t get home till 2:30 in the morning, but it was a fun ride.
Saturday I grabbed my camera and took photos around the house. Cherry, crab apple, and pear trees were in full bloom, along with ginko, violets, and many others. My parent’s place is rather idyllic (granted, having grown up there, I could be biased). Unfortunately, being an “out of state” visitor, I couldn’t get cheap admission to the Mississinewa Reservoir, so ended up driving around the Seven Pillars formation and hiking some of the river bed and the reservoir dam till sunset. I love spring (there’s more on Flickr).
Sunday my cousin Sarah Wilson graduated with a degree from Goshen college. It was probably the best graduation ceremony I’ve been to yet; and though people still slept through much of it (the photo is of my parents), it wasn’t nearly as bad as most. 
It was also great to see extended family, and hang out with grandparents. We had a big family lunch, and celebrated as many holidays as we could think of at once (there are odd little things us cousins do as holiday rituals, such as grabbing food off other people’s plates as part of Thanksgiving festivities).
Sarah is working in southern Kentucky this summer, then moving to South Korea for a year as an ESL teacher, so it’ll be awhile before we can hang out as a group. She will have a website to blog and post pictures on, and with an internet connection, everyone should be able to keep in touch pretty regularly. I’ll post the link for the website just as soon as I can get the design and back end working!
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hey, nice pictures! i obviously haven’t visited your site since you started blogging again a couple months ago. the nature shots are strikingly splendid, and the graduation ones are aww, special. also, i’m impressed with the costume you came up with for LotR. you’re much braver than i. well, i guess we just stick out in different ways: you as a faun, me as the only american in my village. i love you!