This is a story I have been working on for the past two months and I am so excited to finally be able to post the first part!

I have written this story in its entirety, and from the way I have it set out right now, it looks as though it will be 6 chapters, and an Epilogue. That could possibly change as I edit each chapter individually and possibly shift a couple of things around! The chapters will be posted maybe twice a week.

The crop that is being farmed on the property isseed/Canola (Canola is a genetically modified version ofseed that is grown more often these days, I chose to use the word Canola, but they are basically the same thing. Canola is farmed to be pressed for its oil, which is used in cooking and is an ingredient in some dairy-alternative products.) During the summer months, seed and Canola both have golden yellow flowers, which makes them absolutely stunning to look at, and it makes entire fields of Gold.

Part of this was inspired because I am half Australian and half Finnish and I have many childhood memories of finding Canola fields so absolutely stunning. In Australia I often saw them during summer driving holidays, but in Finland, my aunt's home used to back onto a wide field of Canola that sat between her cottage and the forest on the other side, and that is more what inspired the visuals of this. 

Here is a visual reference - a Canola/seed field in China that is flowering around small mountains.

I have purposefully decided to not specify the time/place where this is set. Even though the 'island' does bare similarities to Jeju-do, it is not strictly there. The style of Parish in which this is set is inspired by the parishes in England and Western Europe from the 17th century to the present, and although the religious terminology I have used and references I have made bare the most resemblance to Catholocism, it isn't necesarily that, either. I have tried to be as unspecific with these details as I could be, just so that each reader can make their own interpretation.

As is always the way with my stories, the fiction is very strongly inspired by music, and each chapter will have a song name.

You might be able to tell, with Golden Pastures and my other story, Summer Is Almost Over, the Australian summer is inspiring me to write these warm and sunny stories!