#154 and some landscapes

 Today's mail art, completed just moments ago, because today somehow got very busy. I can't believe we got home late last night. I feel like I never was away, except for that slightly discombobulated feeling having been in a different time zone.  To relive my journey, I'm posting some of the many landscape photos I took through the window in the car.

 Midwest, big sky, lovely clouds.

 La Porte, Indiana, on our way out of town. This row of trees was so lovely.

 Power lines, awesome sky.

 Back in Virginia, where it was much greener than Indiana and the rolling hills, and tree covered old mountains were comforting.

 We saw this up ahead. Traffic was stopped as this very, very large truck made a turn. We didn't know what the load was, until our nephew remembered seeing the huge windmills that we'd passed. They weren't working yet.







Closer look - it's a portion of the windmill structure. HUGE. It was nice to see that they were being installed, taking advantage of nature to create energy.

Sneak peak at the back yard/garden. We returned home to find that our patio was almost complete, with the landscaping part yet to be done. So happy. Here's the pattern of the bricks.

Mail art on the road, #152 & 153, and some interesting sights.

 Mail made while traveling.   I found this house in a brochure at our hotel, and it's been mentioned that the house looked like the one used on the Roseann Barr show (do I remember that?) I guess it's a typical house of that area.  I made this card on Sunday.
After Brunch on Sunday, we headed home to Virginia.

We stayed over night near Athens, Ohio, and I made this card on Monday, in the car.

 Here I am, on Friday, mailing Thursday and Friday's cards in a town  in Ohio, somewhere. I didn't get any photos of me mailing the others. Saturday's I gave to the hotel clerk. Sunday and Monday's cards were handed to the Postal worker outside the post office in Amherst, Virginia. Whew.

 We met the Big Boy on our way to Indiana. I can't remember what state we were in, but he was quite big and my niece and I had our photo taken with him.

 Our nephew stopped to show us this site in Virginia on our way home. He said it had been a restaurant but now it's not used for anything, though it appears to be taken care of.  We were stopped in a cut through of a median strip on a busy road. Aaagh, scary. What we do for our blog.

This looks like a doll's house, right? It's the view down to a portion of the lobby from our hotel room at the Best Western in La Porte, Indiana. Quite a suprise to see this.

Landscape and Mail art #151

 Managed to pick up an Indiana map in the lobby this morning, but there isn't much to glean material from, so I'm happy I brought some scraps with me.
Last night was the wedding rehearsal and a pizza dinner afterwards. It was nice to spend time with family we hadn't seen in years. My how the kids have grown!

Somewhere in Indiana, this typical look of a red barn, a white silo, and lots of clouds, just yesterday. I was shooting from my spot in the back of our nephew's car, through a tinted window. I'm pretty pleased with the results. I took lots and lots of these landscapes.

Tonight is the wedding and tomorrow after brunch, we'll be on the way home. This is a very quick trip!

Day 2 on the road, #150

#150

 We spent the night in Lancaster, Ohio and I found this cool map on a brochure in the hotel lobby. I made this card on the road this morning, and my nephew sweetly stopped at a post office for me to mail yesterday's and today's cards. Yay!

This is Indiana. We arrived at the hotel/motel a short while ago and yippee there's free Wifi. I'm lovin' it and, of course, had to log in right away so I could post my mail art!

Indiana is really flat, at least, where we are. Pretty, in it's flatness.  Like Illinois, where I used to paint landscapes that were just bands of green, yellow ochre, tan, and blue. Illinoiscapes, I called them. This photo is an example of one of my paintings (well sort of.)