PO Monkeys
Wow it has been so long since I’ve posted on the Dean and Becky’s Hummer Adventure Blog.
I thought I’d try and post a few updates and get us caught up to the present. It isn’t that we haven’t had any adventures, it’s that I lost site of enjoying this blog.
We have done a lot of traveling around Mississippi and one place we love to go off and wander in is “The Delta”.
“The Delta begins in Catfish Row in Vicksburg and Ends In Memphis” .
When ever we need a little out of the way time we head for the Delta. The birthplace of the blues.
Becky and I love driving around the delta. Running down forgotten roads. Seeing and learning the history of different places. The Delta is still a very busy and active place with all the plantations being replaced by very large farms. From corn, soybeans, rice, and of course cotton being grown every year. We’ve seen how time has it’s toll on some of the icons in the Delta. Storms rageing through and turning what was into history.
The many churches that dot the landscape bring a witness of the deep spiritual foundation that has been laid throughout the Delta.
A church that was. You can hear the hymns emanating from this church as you walk in.
This past fall this same church fell victim to the delta storms. The beautiful Mt. Helena Plantation home still stands on the Indian mound in the distance.
Here is a small farm workers home in the middle of a corn field. Lightning hit the tree this past winter and sadly burnt the house as well. We know that nothing last forever. But the memories are so very vivid and rich and now tucked away for another time.
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