i have said this a million times over, but i love the country and i love the wheatbelt. no lies. my long term dream would be to buy some land so i can enjoy the open space, grow things and just listen to the sounds of silence. to me, the country is beautiful, often in unconventional ways, like the colour of wheat against the blue sky. the sunburnt paddocks when there hasn't been any rain for months... and the dirt tracks with the green trees hugging their edges.
but i also find the things that should be pretty too - like the canola fields in full bloom on my drive to york today. they are just breathtaking. very few things are prettier than them in fact. they were so striking that i pulled my car over to take some pics, then a car pulled over on the opposite side of the road and waited and waited, so i thought i was being watched by a local who was making sure i didn't walk out into the fields for my own personal photoshoot. they have a lot of issues with that - and my friend keryn who lives in york takes great delight in yelling at people who do it because it's super disrespectful and it ruins the crops!
i hung about for a minute or two more just admiring the view then got in the car to keep driving - as which time the other person got out, phone in hand. looks like they had been waiting to do the same thing and was too embarrassed to get out while i was there. crack up!
it's the country life for me. ❤
