Bloom where you are planted

Technically, I live in the suburbs.

Yep, I'm only 20 miles from a major metropolitan city.

How can that be?

How can all that nature stuff be right outside your door, you ask?

Here's one reason why...

 

And here's the other reason....

 

 A creek and those dreaded powerlines.

Many people don't want to be near powerlines, but nature often is.
 A red tailed hawk often perches on the towers looking for a meal.

Deer and other animals use the powerline easement as a corridor for travel.

 

Many of my neighbors are displaced country folk, forced to work in the city.

But they've found an oasis in suburbia. 

One neighbor has a tree farm.

And a small hunting cabin.

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Many have horses.

The powerline easement is a nice place to ride, if you have permission.

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Other neighbors raise cattle.

 

Or  just use the land for recreation.

Paradise in surburbia!
Who'd have thought?