If the Boot Fits, Buy It!

To live in the country is to have a shoe wardrobe. This is great news if like me you believe there's no such thing as too many pairs. The bad news is that your killer stilettos are now going to be used to dig holes for your bulbs.

My first year of country living was all about the wrong shoes. Once my smooth leather-soled Prada kitten heels came in contact with our icy driveway the result was hazardous to my health. However, not being ready for steel-toed work boots, I made it my mission to find shoes that looked good and kept me upright (This is BC Yak Tracks--website TK)

This year, I found possibly the best boot ever. Beautiful, comfortable, faux-fur-lined, these leather boots are absolutely New York chic. They're by Camper (camper.com), the impossibly eco-trendy Spanish shoe company whose Barcelona (??) headquarters store combines foot fetish with food fetish (a shoe store and an organic cafe). Camper, by the way, is no ordinary shoe company. It is "...a Mediterranean dream that stands for a way of doing, a way of living, a way of feeling..." I can tell you, I feel good about these boots. Get this, this boot lets me be in contact with the earth energies. As the boot tag states: "'Contact earth' is a system which allows the electrostatic energy accumulated throughout the day to discharge and at the same time allows you to be in contact with the earth energies." Who knew?!

Any way, back to my boots, they have cool lace ties which give them a very bohemian flair but best of all, their heavy-duty, rubber tread soles assure I will not be found face down in a snowbank this winter.

$225, Black Parrot, Rockland, ME (website TK)

--carolbrf

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