Lancaster Gray Buggies: Thanks to reader Anita for sharing some serene scenes from lovely Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  Lancaster's Amish country is a good 9 hours from me by car.  You wouldn't think anyplace in Pennsylvania would be 9 hours from anyplace in Ohio, but I am in the western edge of the Buckeye State while Lancaster County is on the eastern extremity of the Keystone State.  So that makes for a rather long drive mostly on the famed and dreaded Pennsylvania Turnpike (most people I talk to seem to hate the turnpike, but I never think it is so bad). So needless to say I don't make it to Lancaster County often.  Still, for being so far away I've probably made 4 or 5 trips there through the years. Not bad.  My first was when I was 19-years-old and I went biking through the county with a friend of mine.  We were visiting a friend who had recently moved to York.  I immediately fell in love with the postcard panoramas and quiet countryside as we pedaled along the winding roads.  So anytime I get the chance to post some photos of this picturesque place, I'm happy.
Old Philadelphia Pike which pokes through Bird-in-Hand and Intercourse is one of the most popular drives through the area, but I love to get off the main roads and just explore. Â Lancaster has its "color quirks" just like other settlements. Â The most notable are the gray-topped buggies and blue curtains in homes. These are just traditions which have evolved here and are unique to hear. Â Buggies in most (not all) Amish settlements tend to be solid black.
If you do, you'll be rewarded with scenes of colorful laundry on the lines, horse-drawn plows out in the fields and children spilling out of one-room school houses on their way to recess. Â Thank you Anita for sharing these scenes and I'll be posting more next week.
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