Country Roads with Good Fences

Whenever my spirits are low, 

and I have a case of cabin fever, 

a trip to the library

(and a country drive) 

is the perfect cure. 

Come along with me 

and we will lift our spirits together! 

First stop - the library, 

with lovely flowering trees

along the walkway. 

I always come away with an armload

of books. 

Gardening, cooking, crafts, 

auto-biographies and local history

are my favorites. 

Sometimes I find a best-seller, 

but those are usually already taken :)

Let's take a little drive through town. 

Pink petals carpet the roads. 

Vintage cottages have blooming trees. 

These are ancient Camellias. 

My favorite.....

The local history museum with sweet 

log cabin. 

A pretty garden behind a chain link fence. 

We leave the little town behind to do some

 shopping at the market,

in the larger town nearby. 

Flowering trees form a petticoat

under tall fir. 

Miniature donkeys in a pretty paddock. 

A tall privacy fence with escaping beauty. 

A neat, working farmyard. 

Hello! 

A Fairy dell. 

Wide open spaces behind us. 

An enchanting fence-line. 

Flowering mustard in a fallow field. 

Sunshine brought to earth. 

Mt. Rainier in the late afternoon sun, 

as we head for home. 

You can see my little mountain 

above the white barn. 

A plume of smoke rises above

from a spring burn.

Logging companies burn the 'slash' (leftover debris), 

although this is being greatly discouraged

now, due to air pollution.  

One of the last working dairy farms 

on the plateau. 

The creek runs high this time of year. 

Skunk cabbage along the side of my country lane. 

Just in time for waking hibernating bears. 

A favorite food. 

Home again. 

It was a lovely day. 

I hope this country drive 

lifted your spirits, too, 

Dear Friends! 

xoxo

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