Arcadian

A word to describe our Bunya mountain hideaway along with the drive through farm land of rich loam/dark chocolate soils bursting with thriving crops. (Soil so good you could eat it!) and the magic of the thickly wooded mountain forest.
Arcadian: rural, rustic, or pastoral, especially suggesting simple, innocent contentment.
To add a few more descriptors perhaps serene, placid, pacific, untroubled.
But I just made the ‘untroubled’ bit up. Sitting on a bench seat up on the highest lookout—to get Telstra and download the paper—-I was quietly reading the news on my iPad when looking past the text I noticed a goodly sized brown snake passing by my shoes. Isabel and Dorothy were away looking at some sign or rather and remarked that it is the fastest they ever ever seen me move.
We three amigos (Dorothy O’Connor, Isabel and I) enjoyed the little rented pine cottage, comfy warm beds, gas log fire heating, even Foxtel and Skynews to watch the changing of the PM unfolding on Monday night. A live-to-air unscripted blockbuster television event, better than The West Wing and more stabbings than in Midsomer Murders.
Also, being so close to the home turf of a former Queensland political giant, we came down off the mountain to visit Kingaroy, to both feed the chooks and grab a big bag of peanuts.
A holiday within a holiday! How good is that?
The rest of this week and into the next we will be enjoying the floral genius of Toowoomba’s gardeners and their annual Carnival of Flowers.