My favorite things about where I live

Yesterday after church I took an alternate route home. Normally I take the bigger divided highway that's practically a straight shot from the bigger town (50k) to my little town (14k), but it was a beautiful day and I wanted to be a little more leisurely in making my way home. So instead I took the winding county highway through the forested hills. As I was driving I saw something that reminded me of all the little things I love about the area. These are not in any particular order, just as I thought of them. There's a tree at the top of a ridge along the county highway that sticks up above the rest of the forest and has such a beautiful curve to its top edge and trunk that it looks like it's magic. As if there is something special about this tree, that if one could just walk past the collection of farm buildings at the bottom of the ridge and up to where it grows, something incredible would happen. A tree like this one must hold a magic portal or a colony of fairies. In late May…

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