Driving in the Country

While taking a drive with the kids we spotted this gorgeous view. Thankfully, I had my camera so we could have a country photo shoot. Love all the hues of green and I swear it even smells green (if there is such a thing). 

The kids were being good sports especially since it was such a glorious spring day. Just love the little poses Delaney makes.

All along the back roads there are run-down or abandoned homes. Here is one of my favorites. It is a gem of a home with an amazing piece of property. Wish the owners would let us move in and fix it up to its former glory. Real shame to see such a beauty uninhabited and going to waste.

 

When spring comes all the trees get leaf buds the colors of fall leaves. It is quite amazing to behold! Love seeing the many hues of red and orange before the beautiful green leaves develop.

I was admiring the view out my rear view mirror and decided to take a photo of it. (Pardon the bird droppings on the front windshield.) Then my little stinkers popped up into my photos. They thought they were so hilarious!

Every time we see cows, horses, sheep, goats, chickens, etc. everyone turns and points. Being the city slickers that we are, farm animals are still such an excitement for us. Asheboro, North Carolina, the "big city" out here in the country, only has a population of 25,012 which is spread over 15.4 square miles. Randolph County, North Carolina is beautiful, but very rural with a population of 141,752 spread over 790 square miles (as of the 2010 census). It is very different from where Hotch and I grew up in Santee, CA with a population of 53,143 spread over 16.53 square miles in San Diego County, California with a population of 3,095,313 that covers 4,525.52 square miles (as of the 2010 census).

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. -Unknown

As hard as it has been to live here in NC being surrounded by such incredible countryside has made it much more tolerable.