Where the river is cool, the sun is shining and everything looks like a storybook

What could be better than walking through storybook, movie-set-ready fields to a clear, untouched, pristine river, with rocks that are jeweled to splash and play?--Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

You just sweeten the deal with the small airstrip in the cornfield on the way there where the children and mommas watched a small two-seater take flight and the fact that the river in question is shallow, slow (and the size of what Pacific Northwesters would call a "creek") and you have pure magic nestled into a hollow of trees where you are surrounded by fields and a sand shore to lie on.

This place isn't real, it is too beautiful, too amazing and rich in lusciousness. Every house is beautiful, every property- it really looks like we have either gone back in time or walked onto a movie set.

Tonight- greens from the garden a la cj, pulled-pork made by my baby brother, fresh-picked corn on the cob, catching fireflies, roasting homemade maple syrup sweetened marshmallows and playing sardines when it gets dark.

What a gift this world can be--- and continues to be.............
-j