Backroads of Morrow County: April 20, 2012

I took the back roads to lunch today--gravel roads and the "paved" roads that are actually just decades of patches, rougher than the gravel roads. It's a lovely trip. Most of the fields are still in stubble; some have been recently plowed; some have wheat coming up (I guess that's what it is), five, six inches tall--kelly green, some are hills landscaped in Angus cows. Little or no "traffic," if you do meet someone, waving is obligatory. One farm has sheep and one alpaca--do they have "guard alpaca"? He knows he's the king--standing regally surveying his kingdom of wool and mutton. I pause at one bend in the road next to a place with its flowered yard, idyllic red barns, visible serenity. I do feel sorry for you poor folks that have to live in the city