The Village of Winona Fall Fest

About 15 minutes from the apartment is a town/lake called Winona Lake. On the shores of this lake, near Grace College, is a little shopping area called The Village of Winona. Three weekends ago was the annual Fall Festival, so Jonelle and I went and had a gander. It was a nice afternoon, and we spent a few hours strolling amongst the shops and what-not. Most of the shops are of the art gallery type, with a decent mixture of painters, photographers, and even a wooden kitchen utensil maker. The foods not bad either. For the Fall Fest they had amongst other things, a British car-show along the canal. Here's a nice blue MG.

While strolling and checking out some of the cars Jonelle and I met an interesting couple. It seems they traveled all the way from, well we never found out for sure, but we can imagine it was fairly far away. We had a hard time understanding everything they said, but for the most part, it seems they enjoyed the cars more then we did. I'll include a picture and it may make more sense.

Here's one of my favorite pictures from the event. It seems the couple was pretty good at reading signs. Here they are checking out a duck crossing sign.

Overall it was a pretty good day. From there, we all parted ways. Jonelle and I went about our day, while the other couple swam off into the sunset. Maybe someday our paths will cross again. Here is one last picture, taken just before we parted ways.

Tippecanoe State Park

My lovely editor and I spent Sweetest Day taking in Tippecanoe State Park in Winamac, IN (West-Central, Indiana). It's a quaint little park, and this time of the year we seemed to have it all to ourselves, unless you count the turtles and geese we saw. We started by climbing a 90 foot fire-tower to get the layout of the park. As you can tell from the picture below, this didn't work as planned as all we saw were trees.....many many trees. Odd being a forest. We did see a fire, there was no panic so we can assume it was controlled.

Next we decided to take in some waterfowl in the waterfowl preserve. While this seems logical, there seemed to be more preserve then waterfowl. Unless of course, you count the many turtles we saw. We'll blame that on the season. Despite this, we took some pictures I am particularly proud of. My editor says they look like Bob Ross paintings, with "happy little trees" and "a few friends to go along." Bob Ross quotes will brighten anybodys day.

Here's a picture of the many turtles we saw. I'd say we saw about 10 while we were hiking.

Looking forward, expect a few more posts over the next few days. Topics in the near future include an interesting couple we met at a car show, a tutorial on how to take 200 pictures in less than an hour, and possibly even a behind the scenes tour of the home-office of this blog.

The Chinworth Bridge

It's been awhile since the last post, but things have been busy. A week in Chicago learning the correct way to manage a bookstore, a friend's wedding, and the passing of my grandma have made for some busy weeks. I've also finally moved into the new apartment. So as to not keep my fans from waiting to long for a new post I've gone to my photo archives and pulled out my first Warsaw photo shoot.

Before I do, I'd like to introduce my new editor, Jonelle Brinkman. She also acts as my photo assistant....often from a distance pretending to be bored. I'll include a picture of us.

Today's Warsaw attraction is the Old Chinworth Bridge. I don't know many details regarding this bridge unfortunatly. I found it by opening the complimentary attraction binder on day one of my 25-day hotel stay when I first moved here. My editor claims it is the oldest all steel single span bridge in the entire state of Indiana. It was constructed in Bellefountaine, OH. How they transported it all that way so long ago is beyond me, I imagine it involved many horses. Other facts regarding the bridge: It's red, there is water under it, and it's now part of a walking trail. Enjoy the pictures and let me know what you think.