Color Tour 2010

This weekend I made the drive up North to see my family and attend a wedding.  It was a normal drive, as usual my surroundings became better looking with every mile I drove up past Grand Rapids.  The weather was delicious, and the trees were all sorts of bright and beautiful colors.  Pentwater was so beautiful.  Driving around the lake was a fantastic sight to see.  All of the fall colors were painted throughout the trees, and you could see the reflections of them in the lake.  I forgot what it was like to even drive around in this town during this time.  The senior citizens love getting out and about in their cars and going on the color tour.  I realized this when I got behind a little lady that you could not even see above her stearing wheel in her car.  She was driving a whopping 5 miles an hour on  a highway.  That is very dangerous, but hilarious.  She reminded me of my grandparents, and how on days like this we would find any reason to go driving around to look at the colors. 

Arriving downtown, it was busy.  Busy with all sorts of people.  The weather was warm, and the town was heavily decorated for fall.  Scarecrows, corn stalks, ghords, and hay stacks.  The smells mixing with Lake Michigan, paired with the gorgeous scenery made me so proud, and content with being home.  Everything feels so clean, and pure when I am home.  Everything is so simplified, and you look around and see people enjoying the simplest things in life.  The church where my childhood friend was getting married is right downtown in the Methodist Church.  I had to arrive for rehearsal to practice my song.  Even in the church as I sang, with every breath in me I could smell and taste fall.  It was a gorgeous weekend for a fall wedding.  Everyone around was full of good spirits.