Amish Country -- Moberly, Missouri

[Dana Grant]

More photos from the afternoon we spent getting lost in Amish Country just outside Moberly, Missouri..........

Here's the rest of the album (turn up your speakers -- beautiful musical accompaniment!): http://www.danagrant.phanfare.com/4991503

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[Dana Grant]

I've been having some fun with Photoshop elements lately -- just learning it. I have a tutorial on CD that is helping me......

Here's a photo that has some "old fashioned" texturizing and vignetting.....

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[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing!

[Cam Pence]

i live an hour from moberly and see much of the same scenery...thanks for sharing.

[Dana Grant]

My daughter is attending Central Christian College of the Bible in Moberly.....lovely country around that area!! Well, except I don't particularly like snow......... LOL

[Susan Unger]

I always try to shoot some pics of Lancaster County, PA Amish but since I am usually doing the driving it is not advisable :)

[Dana Grant]

I always try to shoot some pics of Lancaster County, PA Amish but since I am usually doing the driving it is not advisable :)

Susan, I can't tell you how many times we stopped our van on those back dirt roads!!! Every barn -- "Bert, stop here!!" -- or "Do you want a picture of this one, too?" LOL I was so thankful to be driving with Bert because he has an inner sense of direction and was able to get us out of that maze of dirt roads and back on the route to home!!

[Marg Shurtliff]

Susan, I can't tell you how many times we stopped our van on those back dirt roads!!! Every barn -- "Bert, stop here!!" -- or "Do you want a picture of this one, too?" LOL I was so thankful to be driving with Bert because he has an inner sense of direction and was able to get us out of that maze of dirt roads and back on the route to home!!

Reminds me of the time we took missionary Doug Alexander to Family Camp . His mom lived in Ottawa and he'd been visitning her . He wanted to take pictures of fences ( there's a new one for you , Dana ) and asked if I would stop so he could get some . I said , sure , just say when . He occasionally said " that'd make a good picture " or something similar , maybe not so precise . I finally said when do you want to stop . He said " anytime I said that ! " So we stopped and the next thing we knew he was several fields over taking pictures . I remember he got up early Saturday AM about dawn to get pictures around the camp grounds . Sad to say he's deceased now .

[Susan Unger]

Susan, I can't tell you how many times we stopped our van on those back dirt roads!!! Every barn -- "Bert, stop here!!" -- or "Do you want a picture of this one, too?" LOL I was so thankful to be driving with Bert because he has an inner sense of direction and was able to get us out of that maze of dirt roads and back on the route to home!!

I usually was driving through a small town or along back roads that had no place to pull off for a picture. I did get one of an Amish farm but it is at a distance so it looks like any ole farm.

[Dana Grant]

I usually was driving through a small town or along back roads that had no place to pull off for a picture. I did get one of an Amish farm but it is at a distance so it looks like any ole farm.

That was really the best part of being on these back dirt roads, completely in the middle of nowhere, it seemed. We just stopped right in the middle of the road, because basically we were the only car on the road. We did NOT see another vehicle on the road the whole time we were exploring -- except the buggies that would pass us once in a while. It was GREAT. I had never experienced that before......

Edit: Susan, the fact that it was a Sunday afternoon probably explained a bit, as well. There were several little shops -- a bakery, a quilt shop, someone selling picture frames, someone else selling hand crafted furniture, etc., etc.-- that were closed on Sunday afternoon, which is probably the main reason that we were the only ones on the road. Now we know what day to go exploring again when we come back next year!

[John Reilly]

I love the Amish. We visit the Amish almost every summer when we visit my daughter in West Grove, PA which is near Lancaster, PA. SO one summer we had supper with an Amish family in their large family kitchen. The food was fantastic, baked ham, baked chicken, mashed potato with lots of butter, apple sauce, corn on the cob with lots of butter, hot rolls with lots of butter, butter on the side for anything at all, and triple layers chocolate cake. I wanted to live with them. Then we had a tour of the farm and the barn and reconsidered. They work really hard.

[Susan Unger]

I love the Amish. We visit the Amish almost every summer when we visit my daughter in West Grove, PA which is near Lancaster, PA. SO one summer we had supper with an Amish family in their large family kitchen. The food was fantastic, baked ham, baked chicken, mashed potato with lots of butter, apple sauce, corn on the cob with lots of butter, hot rolls with lots of butter, butter on the side for anything at all, and triple layers chocolate cake. I wanted to live with them. Then we had a tour of the farm and the barn and reconsidered. They work really hard.

I live 90 min away from West Grove - those were the Amish I've tried taking pictures of. But, I have eaten at the home of an Amish woman. Lots 'o butter is true!

[Dana Grant]

Well, then I guess I need to stick to taking pictures of them, because I definitely can't eat that kind of food anymore!!!

[Susan Unger]

Well, then I guess I need to stick to taking pictures of them, because I definitely can't eat that kind of food anymore!!!

Me, neither. I grew up on the Hoosier version of that stuff [mom's ancestors were PA Dutch so there are vestigages of that style of food at family reunions]. The last reunion with that kind of food left me VERY sick.

Then when we had our SS party at the amish farmhouse, I ate very carefully - not too much fat or carbs. The guy next to me was in shock over how I was eating "like a bird". But I didn't leave sick!!

[Wendy Smith]

Dana,
You mentioned a CD tutuorial for photoshop. Can you tell me where you got it or the name of it? We just got photoshop and wish we knew more about it! Thanks! Enjoyed your pictures of the barns!

[Dana Grant]

Dana,
You mentioned a CD tutuorial for photoshop. Can you tell me where you got it or the name of it? We just got photoshop and wish we knew more about it! Thanks! Enjoyed your pictures of the barns!

Hi Wendy. This is a CD for Photoshop Elements. I got it from my friend who took a class in it. I actually think the teacher made the CD for the students, but I'm not sure about that. It comes with a notebook, as well. Let me do some asking, and I'll get back to you.