Ohio tends to get a bad rap. It’s boring, it’s flat, it’s a hot bed of drug use and terrible things and Rust Belt ghosts and all that.

But I’ve lived here all my life, and I really do like it.

Especially when I had a drive home that included:

• that view

• Corn fields ready for harvesting

• FOUR horses in paddocks, grazing

• a farm house with a sign that said “Fresh apple cider sold here”

• a farm run by sisters that has a resident llama

• A barn with an old “Mail Pouch Tobacco” advertisement on its side

I drove home from barre class with the windows down and great songs on the stereo and a gorgeous early fall day.

Ohio has its good points.