All told it was about 7 hours to get there and about the same to get home and Fall is well along in turning the foliage into a glorious golden and red blanket for the hills that not quite bar the way from Philadelphia to the Western Pennsylvania border. It was darned nice out there and the company at the other end was the best. In short, it was a fairly typical gathering of the clan minus the outriders who were unable to make it and catch up with everybody else. Still, we had family in from all over the country and Canada which happens to be where a good bit of the clan started out while up working in Newfoundland a very very long time ago.
I thought it was interesting to note how once again one could almost tell at a glance just who one was dealing with. Nice house with splendid slightly out of control-not to say exuberantly crazy garden? Yep. Enough chairs to comfortably seat 50 in a pinch? Yep. Food literally hitting the tables like successive waves from an ocean hitting a beach? Yep.
This was the first family gathering I've been to though where the youngest was just fifteen. There were no little kids or babies for this one. This was more an occasion for people to play the do you remember when game and kids don't play that very well. No babies, no little kids but plenty of people done with work and exploring their own passions and quite a few that have passed those passions along to the next adult generation who are busy raising the next one.
It was a quiet affair but it went on for a few days and, just like life, everyone enjoyed it.
2 comments:
Thats a very pretty drive in the fall! Philly was my stomping grounds as a kid. Lived in NJ but when the speed line went in it was our gateway to the city.
Drove right through my neck of the woods. Haven't been to Philly in 10 years - don't really miss going there. There was this one woman though, he he.
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