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Sunday, June 9

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I love when we are home on a Sunday morning when Amish church is at one of our closest neighbors. Amish in the nearby community come from a variety of directions, but when it is at Eli’s, more buggies than usual go by our house.

This traffic began about 8:20 am.

One of our newest Amish neighbors lives close enough to walk – probably about 3/4 of a mile.

She has a garden right along the road and gets an amazing number of vegetables – even raspberries in a small area. I don’t think she allows even one weed to grow.

We met this young boy on a scooter as we drove to our church. 8:33 am.

On the way home, we drove around the block to get a view of all the buggies on their property.

It was about 2:17 pm when I began seeing them traveling toward home.

Horses and buggies are all a bit different.

Most Amish owned horses in our area are a variety of shades of brown and black. Every now and then we see a white one.

The buggies in our area are all the same shade of gray. This buggy has a short sun visor in the front. It probably means he is a minister. Traditions in Amish communities vary, but we learned this when on a Lancaster County Amish tour. The bishop’s visor is slightly larger.

I went back to the row of buggies at the house and cropped this picture to show the difference between having a visor (left) or no visor (right).

Another buggy with a small sun visor.

Heavy traffic

An Amish family meets a motorcycle.

I didn’t see this family walking to church – but apparently, they did. I think they are the ones who live just beyond the young couple with a baby.

My last “going home” picture was taken at 2:29 pm.

I am grateful that Amish families began moving into our community in the past 25-30 years, and that new ones keep buying property in the neighborhood. We live far from the tourist area in Lancaster County, so it is a nice quiet place for them to live.