Rocky Boy!!

I think the pictures kind of speak for themselves! Except for Amayah's shawl getting stolen, this was one awesome pow wow this summer....I can't believe how fast the days have gone by since.

The area was beautiful, we hope to make it back next summer!!

There were some pretty fabulous dancers, which will be included in the next few postings.

It may not be lakes and trees that we Woodlands are accustomed to, but I can't say enough about how beautiful it is ....a different kind of Indian country....none the less....still Indian country!

A few more ricing pics......

A few more pictures from last weekend, when it was still nice out!! I know I said it before, and I kept saying it to Emma that day...I'm so glad we went out ricing. Now here I sit at home, it's cold, rainy and windy with the threat of winter just around the corner......again.

RICING SEPTEMBER 2009

This is it!! Went ricing last weekend, 9/16/09 to be exact. We chose to paddle around and to the back of Plum Island you see in the second picture. The rice in this area was ripe, thick and fell into the canoe easily. It was soooo nice to be on the old ricing lake again, we scared up a few hundred ducks.

My ricing partner was none other than Emma Lee J. We had the most awesome day, we decided we were not going to over do anything...took our time, no rush to the day at all. It was her first time 'polling...or is it poling' ha ha .... however you spell it...once she got the hang of controlling the canoe, she did a very good job. Had a few shakey moments where I half expected to hear her splash into the water, but she was pretty good at stabilizing herself. We also had a lot of laughs!!

At the end of the day, we were very glad and appreciative to have the beautiful lake landing to ourselves!

I am so glad we decided to go ricing that weekend, we replenished our eating rice for the next year or so.