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Makes Me Smile

Posted by Dianne Christner - Christian Fiction Author on April 14, 2012 at 5:35 PM


Cows make me smile.


They remind me of the reason I chose Plain City, Ohio, as the setting for my recent book series. This photo takes me back in time. I lived in Columbus, Ohio, and drove country roads to get to the rural church I attended. That's where I met a good looking Mennonite guy.  You see, Plain City's the setting for my own real-life romance.


And we're headed back this month for a mini book tour as well as to spend time with the family.



Barns make Jim smile.


I'm excited about getting some photos for future blog posts. Jim's fascinated with the old barns and for good reason. He knows how to bring life to the old barn beams by turning them into fabulous fireplace mantels.




My only regret is that the sweet corn won't be ripe. But maybe I'll find a Whoopie Pie instead. Looking forward to meeting readers and making new friends. Hope the road brings us together!


What is it about the country that makes you smile?

Categories: Personal life, Plain City Bridesmaids

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7 Comments

Reply Gail
11:31 AM on April 15, 2012 
I enjoyed reading this & love the pictures,too!!! Many things make me smile. I grew up in the county & miss it. I do live in a small town but as the years go by I want to live in the county again. I love about the county fresh air smell, seeing laundry on clothes line blowing in the breeze, animals in the fields, fields growing crops, houses not so close to each other & I think i could go on & on! I hope sometime to meet you,too!!
Reply Dianne Christner - Christian Fiction Author
02:10 PM on April 15, 2012 
I love seeing laundry on the clotheslines! The things you listed just feel, well, wholesome. My husband, growing up on the farm, especially misses the wide open spaces. Thanks for sharing, Gail.

Gail says...
I enjoyed reading this & love the pictures,too!!! Many things make me smile. I grew up in the county & miss it. I do live in a small town but as the years go by I want to live in the county again. I love about the county fresh air smell, seeing laundry on clothes line blowing in the breeze, animals in the fields, fields growing crops, houses not so close to each other & I think i could go on & on! I hope sometime to meet you,too!!
Reply tcliff72@yahoo.com
01:35 PM on May 22, 2012 
The breeze in a grassy pasture, farms, so many things! I couldn't survive without the country!! :)
Reply Gretchen Bakies
07:12 AM on August 02, 2012 
Taking a walk down the little dirt road across from my Grandmother's house in Pierpont Ohio in the early summer and looking for wild strawberries alongside the road. We always went for a walk as kids when we stayed as with Grandma and Grandpa. Then as an adult, when I got my car, it became out tradition for Grandma and I to spend the weekend together for the Ashtabula Covered Bridge Festival weekend in October. In later years I usually went to the fairgrounds and got pancake breakfasts on Sunday, picked up my Great-Aunt and the three of us did the bridges together. I think we only missed 3 years due to car trouble between 1986 and 2002, the year before Grandma died. I've only gone twice since then with my aunt and uncle. It's just not the same. Aunty doesn't know all the houses or farms of where relatives used to live or who lives on that farms now.
Reply Diana Lancaster
10:57 PM on February 12, 2013 
Oh the peacefulness and wholesomeness that comes with the country. I love the cows and pastures and the horses. Nothing makes me smile more than to see an Amish cart going down a country road with kids peaking out the back window. I grew up in Ohio and even though life's journey has taken me to many other places, now living in Mississippi, my heart is still in Ohio. I visited Plain City and fell in love with it!
Reply Dianne Christner - Christian Fiction Author
11:17 AM on February 13, 2013 
Diana,
Thanks for sharing. Nice to meet another person who grew up in Ohio.

Diana Lancaster says...
Oh the peacefulness and wholesomeness that comes with the country. I love the cows and pastures and the horses. Nothing makes me smile more than to see an Amish cart going down a country road with kids peaking out the back window. I grew up in Ohio and even though life's journey has taken me to many other places, now living in Mississippi, my heart is still in Ohio. I visited Plain City and fell in love with it!
Reply Dee
05:35 PM on February 26, 2013 
Dianne Christner - Christian Fiction Author says...
Diana,
Thanks for sharing. Nice to meet another person who grew up in Ohio.
The Ohio roots stay with you throughout life even though you've moved away years ago. It keeps bringing me back. I love and enjoy the Amish country and Mennonite areas so much now that I am older.

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