A Townie’s Jaunt to the Countryside

You live in a town – maybe even a big city. And on a nice Sunday afternoon, you fancy a ride out to the country to see what you can see. What do you want to find?

Maybe a barn, or even better barns, dotted round the pastureland.

In Yorkshire, or ‘up north’ at any rate, a drystone wall wouldn’t go amiss.

You have to see a flock of sheep, a few cows. A gaggle of geese too maybe?

And a farmer at work – yes, even on a Sunday …

And a rusting old tractor in a tumbledown barn?

And you need to drive along ‘the rolling English road‘, made, according to GK Chesterton, by ‘the rolling English drunkard‘.

And to make your day complete, just before you head back to town and all mod cons, you’d quite like to have to grind to a halt on the road because…

For Leanne’s Monochrome Madness: Outside the city and into the country.

Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

49 thoughts on “A Townie’s Jaunt to the Countryside”

  6. Margaret, nice post. I was thinking about the last time I visited my in-law’s home in western Ohio. It was always so peaceful to drive the country roads I knew and some I didn’t. My wife was there, in her home town, this past weekend for the solar eclipse – they were in totality and I was home teaching in the 93.5% partiality. My in-laws have been gone over eight years, how can that be? I miss them, and I miss my visits to the country. Stay well. Peace.

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    1. So glad you saw the eclipse, even if not totally total. Yes, you’re in the generation that has to mourn that the one before has passed away. I’ve now reached that generation. Ah well. Have a great weekend.

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  9. Oh these are nice! I went out on a barn photo shoot last week but I haven’t processed any of the photos yet. You inspire me to get going! I love your old tractor and the geese in front of the barn and the three cows! 🙂

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  13. This set of images sums up the Dales so perfectly! I may never have driven those specific routes but I feel as if I have, as everything is so quintessentially Dales 🙂 And working so well in monochrome too!

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