Okay I can’t resist then, I just came from a tiny bit bigger walk (6.5km but with higher elevation than normal as we went from our hilltop to another hilltop :D). There was a great view but I only made photos about these beauties, the time for them has come!
I live “in the middle of nowhere” (other people’s words, not mine. we have forests, little and big rivers, little and big ponds and zillion pines, even a gas station only ~3.6km away. it’s a good place, not many people, I like it. we even have a pasque flower hill, I only had that in Budapest before) in Hungary.
Very Hungarian anchestors, they were peasants with some high quality lands (not big ones but very good, no one sold them, you had to inherit it or marry into a family with them. of course everything was taken away after WW2 and socialism came or something that they called so, IDK. it was “given back” after 1989 so I have a worthless strip of land and another I rent out for a tiny money) so they stay put. My SO has a way more interesting anchestry and other countries were involved just a few generations ago.
I lived on the Hungarian Great Plain before but now I live 20km from it, in a mountain range (on a hilltop and still at 200m so yeah, the real hills are a bit farther. but the scenery is still nice and not flat at all. it’s not about the actual height but the steepness of the slopes :D).
We regularly have rain, it’s cool as it was different where I was from. We have super hot times and snow too so yep, 4 seasons here too though sometimes spring is super short, I don’t like that.
We have pretty much forest compared to an European country not in the North as far as I know and it does good to the fauna. And I am surrounded with forests here Sometimes I try to imagine the countries with zillions of people in a tiny area. They must have almost no Nature…