Monday October 16, 2006

Coming Home From Buffalo

Sunday

We started our day with coffee in the motel lobby – visiting with our French Canadian Chaplain Claude (pronounced cl-oo-de) and his wife Hughette (front left) and our traveling companions Alice and Sam Rittenhouse. 

It is always fun to spend time with Claude and Huguette, and listen to bits and pieces of their salvation stories, as they are so different from those of us who grew up in Christian families.  I’m not comfortable putting information on the blog, because he had to be hidden for a year (for his safety) after being saved at the age of eighteen. (One has to be careful, or a search engine will pick up those words and pull me out as possibly having knowledge of the same business!) 

From there we drove up the street to see if I could get a picture of the chapel surrounded by snow.  Most of it has melted, but there is still a pile of rather dirty snow in front of the chapel.

We saw lots of tree damage, and hear there are still hundreds of people without electricity.  (The man who took the first picture was at the motel to have a warm place to stay, and be able to take a shower.)

This Pennsylvania Welcome Center is one of our favorite rest stops when traveling home from Buffalo.

We were either a week ahead of peak season for seeing leaves, or the colors are more muted this year, however, muted or brilliant, the scenery is always fabulous from this vantage point.

And it wasn’t difficult to find some really bright colors

Colored leaves amaze me.

Just a few short weeks ago, these bright red leaves were a deep green.