One road looks like another. No oceans or lakes or mountains to mark the horizons.
Everywhere you go, there are small farms, big farms, old barns and new ones.
I often wonder if you took all of the small towns and homesteads of Benton County--excluding cropland--and crammed them all into city limits, what city would it approximate?
I'm glad we're spread out, usually. Sometimes I feel lonely and isolated, but I also enjoy sunrises, sunsets and quiet drives on gravel roads, watching the fields in the first blush of spring.
Have you taken a slow drive on a gravel road lately?
I learned to drive on gravel (and sometimes dirt roads) in PA. As kids we always took a drive on a Sunday afternoon. Something I always looked forward to....but we were in the mountains so it was a whole different look. xo Diana
ReplyDeleteI love the look of the Iowa countryside. So open and peaceful.
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful views...and I love that last shot!
ReplyDeleteiowa is so full of white farm buildings. i love that. :)
ReplyDeletesuch great view. far aways make it look so small. but i bet it looks huge up close. (:
ReplyDeleteWhen we lived in Indiana a year and a half ago, there were still many gravel roads.
ReplyDeleteI think most of them have been paved up here in Wisconsin, at least we haven't encountered any.
I love a pastoral setting like that - - - full of it's own rich farming heritage.
Nice shots! My area of Iowa looks very similar.
ReplyDeleteFantastic & very large working farms & views, too!
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Beautiful country scenes! Still a lot of gravel roads here in Alaska, and wherever we are I always like traveling the back roads.
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