Going back to Pennsylvania took me back to my own childhood growing up in the countryside in and around East Yorkshire. High school was opposite a field of cows, spotting new born lambs in fields on the way to York was always our sign of oncoming spring and warmer times. But with the move to Michigan seeing fields yet along cows or sheep is a little bit of a rarity, at least without a good drive out of suburbia.
You know when you when you hit the countryside when those smells hit your nose, but for once they were a little welcoming and the rolling green hills, winding tight roads and white picket fencing made a lovely change from endless free ways. Joe and our nephews showed me around what is the working farm at the Round Hill Park - a farm Joe often visited as a child and has a great selection of horses, hens to pigs and cows. It was great to see the children has interested in the animals as they were at dragging me around the place.