Unapologetically Country Prone

It's no wonder with these lazy June days

that I'm finding myself switching out

Adele

and tuning into a genre

gifting me with memories of

*Lightning Bugs* floating upon the tall fields ...

earnestly destined to live in the

rolling land, and hopelessly

suckered-in by every Horse Whispering tale

We fake it here in the suburbs.

play weekend cowboys:

riding our horses with my parents

(having proudly converted my husband to happily wearing the vintage tack-swap cowboy boots i found him, as his near-daily *preference!)

looking forward to rodeos,

awed by movies like 8 Seconds,

and daydreaming of unmapped motorcylce trips across the West.

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Isn't that what we all do?

-- pick the realistic,

half-way point between ideal worlds?

Don't get me wrong~

 I love our quaint little house,

its location 1 block off Main Street in "small-town-ville" bridging the edge of metropolis,

living 1.2 miles from work

and my MiNi Cooper that would inevitably last 7min on a farm..

...

and (perhaps peculiarly) I find myself especially fortunate to

find a guy who drives a pickup truck, rides my horses, fixes the washing machine*
***these alone paint a mirage of inprobable validity for a person born in Minneapolis- Ha!*** 

invariably belts-out country music with the windows rolled down & me chiming along (equally out of tune),

loves the span of a never-ending Western skyline..

--yet--

he can listen to me talk about design + stationary for oodles of inordinate time

and rub elbows with a black-tie crowd like it's all he's ever known.

+ he wanted to marry me.

so we continue to span this life

of cosmopolitan convenience --meets-- rural romance

and

in the meantime, here's my palette for a

Lifestyle / Vacation

palpable in endless country-music lyrics

There's sOmething about the dewy haze

of a cool summer sunset

that makes me smile through to the core

 

**~ Sigh .. 

..now off to bed, snuggling with my fresh white down

to the sound of rain out the window*

Tomorrow is my late shift at work -- SO

i get to sleep in!
although, I will not look anywhere near this gorgeous Swedish dame when i wake!

good night & best of luck with your daydreams