And All Nature Laughed in the Sunshine

I have always loved nature, but lately I am practically obsessed. It's actually getting dangerous--I keep getting distracted while I'm driving, looking at beautiful trees or the blankets of wildflowers or the majestic sunsets. It used to drive Mike crazy how often I'd want to stop and take pictures of things, so I've started trying to do it when I'm alone in the car. The other day I pulled over, on a narrow road with a speed limit of 60, and crossed the street to take a video of the wind in the long grass of one of the gorgeous fields I drive past. 



There are a lot of things I don't like about where we live, but in much the same way as the mountains in Utah, the simple beauty of it is very nearly enough to make up for them all on its own. I love the trees...

And the sky...

And the flowers in the spring...

 

And I love living somewhere where I regularly drive past places that look like this:

There are definitely things about the city that I like, and right now they're pretty appealing to me--things like public transportation, and not having to drive so effing much every single day of my life. (I am so. sick. of. driving.) But I love living rurally, too, and these are the things that have kept me here so far.