A week in Illinois, part 1

It’s very easy and very difficult to describe rural Illinois in June. It’s green and beautiful and flat. It just is. Nicole’s pa’s house is in the middle of miles of farmland, out of every window you can see it sprawling every which where. The sky and the weather were unbelievably nice.

There’s a tree in the backyard that I took a picture of in the winter and now you can see what it looks like in the summer.

After the street passes the house it becomes a gravel country road. Nicole and I took the family dog Jane on a walk on the gravel road and we all had a good time. Walked down the road a piece. It goes along for quite a long way. We passed a good deal of young corn, it’s springing up all over the state. Far down the road it looks like there’s a kind of farm house, but we never got that far down the road. Jane had nearly run herself into a lather so we turned around and went home to relax.