{Virtual Coffee} Country Living

Good Tuesday Morning friends!  I'm joining in with Virtual Coffee this morning ... and I'm glad it's virtual because I'm sitting at work, and it's dirty here.  Coffee taste better without a spare bit of coal possibly floating around in it (which is why I drink coffee while I'm driving).

This morning I really want to share some pictures with you, because if we were really meeting for coffee I'd probably bug you to look at them anyway and then eagerly peer over your shoulder as you look at them, and probably start asking what you think before you can even think about what you think (so don't disappoint me ... leave a comment!).

These pictures are from my in-laws house.  They live about 20 minutes outside of Auburn ... in the middle of nowhere!



If we were meeting for coffee; while you looked at my pictures I would confess to you that even though the country is absolutely beautiful, I could not live in the country.  Where they live only one cell phone provider has service (and it's not mine), they don't have internet or wireless ... and you can't even steal it from your neigbors because they are miles away.  The local channels don't come in on the t.v. and the closest grocery stores is 10 miles away.



Of course ... you might confess that my description above sounds like your ideal life ... away from everyone doing your own thing in the country, and I know some people love that idea.  Well, that would lead to me confess that I don't.

Which might start a discussion of how odd uniquely me I am ...



I'm like a glob of contradictions ...

I hate crowds, but I love being near people.
I hate traffic, but I wouldn't trade it for a drive home that includes dirt roads.

It's hard to place myself into the 'country girl or city girl' question. 


So ... I'm making a new one.  If we were drinking coffee, I imagine it would be in my living room with my garden in the backyard, the street out my front window and houses just close enough.  I am a suburb girl for sure!


and while the country is indeed beautiful, I'd rather visit and take pictures and hang the pictures around my house on a cul-de-sac in a neighborhood with sidewalks and kids running yard to yard.

Yes, I dream about my perfect suburban neighboorhood.

If we were having coffee ... I'd shut up and let you look at the pictures.




the picture below is entered into Simplicity's photo challenge: Daydream


Although ... I do confess, put a lake out my front door and I will move to the middle of nowhere for that!

Where do you fall?  Are you a city girl, country girl, or a suburb girl?

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