You're Lookin' at Country....

Some years back, there was a cute Loretta Lynn song called "If You're Lookin' at Me, You're Lookin' at Country"... that could be my song as well... I post often about my little rural town and my love of the country life... the only way of life I have ever known... and the only way of life I want to live... for many years, Jack and I travelled alot and visited some of the big cities with bright lights and huge freeways everywhere... and they just are not us... I'll trade those bright lights for fireflies anytime... and I will always choose a country dirt road over a paved one... I would love to travel our beautiful country one day, taking the back roads of course, and visiting once more the heartland I saw as a child on family vacations, the small rural towns that dot the countrysides, the prairies in full bloom, and fields and fields of tall corn and sunflowers... I carry those beautiful memories from when I was a little girl in my mind and in my heart... there are still many such places to see right here in my own countryside... I love my little town... and yes, it has grown some over the years... but the small~town country atmosphere does not change... Salt Lake City is only about 20 minutes to the south of us, yet we rarely go there now that we are retired... we both spent our entire careers in Salt Lake at the police department, Jack as a police officer and me in the records division... and I was so happy always to leave the city at the end of the day and head back out to the country... when we do go into town, everyone in my family always says how happy we are to come around the bend of the mountains as we enter our peaceful little valley... the difference is like night and day... below is my favorite photo I think I have ever taken... I joined a fun blog party several years ago called "Barn Chicks", and as I flung my levi jacket over the old fencepost to photograph the barn in the background, I snapped a shot of the old sagging fence with my jacket on it as well... the fields full of wildflowers and our beautiful foothills in the background... this bucolic scene is a mere five minutes walk from my home... this is the country life I so love...

Everywhere you look these days, there are magazines and books about the country life, the prairie life, farmhouses, barns... hey!... I love all of these things... and I love to write... and I love to photograph... why don't "I" write a book???... I am seriously thinking of doing so... I would use my favorite photo above on the cover...
I certainly have the most beautiful countryside to photograph... and these places are real... still working farms... not staged for a photo op...

Jack wants the old Model A to restore... I would love to be able to buy it for him...

Maybe with all of the money I make selling my book???... it would cost an absolute mint to restore it... but soo worth it!... sigh... I can dream... and I shall... about Jack and the little Model A...

Looks like this is right out of a magazine huh?... nope, it is about five minutes away from my home as well...

Oooh the stories these could tell... these are not shops... these are peoples farms... I always ask permission to photograph... well, usually... I mean, most of the time... some of the time???... honestly, I DO ask... and most often the folks are friendly and happy to chat with me as I photograph... sometimes, I will take a copy of a photo back to them... as a thank~you of sorts... (just hope there are no angry bulls lurking around when no one is home to ask!)...

Shabby Heaven...

This one is too cute!...

These two tractors are parked on the main drag in the little town of Farmington where my sister and her family lives... Farmington adjoins my little town of Centerville to the north... I was hoping to meet the two farmers who drove them here... I call it "lunch in the big city"... tee hee hee... so what do you think?... will you visit me on my book~signing tour???... xoxo...