Back Road Beauty: A Sunday Drive...

Next time you get out of church, turn right instead of left, or left instead of right--and head for the countryside instead of going home.


Stop and get a cup of coffee, some hot chocolate, or a Coke for a treat.  Then sit back and watch the beauty, all free for the taking, all you have to do is look out the window of that comfy, warm car or truck and admire the hard and excellent work of laborers from the past.

Soon, you will all be talking, visiting, conversing, singing along once in a while to the favorite country tune playing in the background.  


Even the teenager will participate.  (Yes, he will tease, too, because you always ask dad to stop and turn around so you can take a picture.  And you embarrass him to death when you thank the horses for posing so nicely and you tell them repeatedly that they are beautiful.)

So much is out there, and on a Sunday, well, it just seems like on Sunday, we have the time for such things.

It takes us back to a simpler time...when there wasn't anything we were in a rush for.

And we should be that way more often now, more than ever. 

Scenery like this is on my way to almost everywhere.  Yet I never tire of looking at farms, and old well-kept homes--plain and simple or beautiful and fancy--horses, cattle, pastures, and best of all, the barns that have been there guarding the old home place for a century or more.

How could that ever get old?  Sometimes, just taking the long way home is worth it because of the new beauty that you might not have seen before.

 

In the comments section, tell us if you are a "City Mouse" or a "Country Mouse"!