Author: Steve

Turns out there is a photo of Dad and the hat.

Thank you, brother Tom.

Turns out brother Bill had the hat too (sort of).  I’d make this photo from about 1954 plus or minus.

Lake Minatare State Recreation Area in Nebraska.  It has a lighthouse.

It doesn’t need a lighthouse. It’s not a very big lake, and it’s in Nebraska!  But during the dark days of the depression, it was constructed as a beacon of hope.  Built entirely of native stone by the Veterans Conservation Corps, it was completed in 1939 and is now known as the Plains Lighthouse.  It doesn’t really have a light at the top.  It serves as an observation tower and attraction.

I just remembered; Dad had a hat like this.

A wide-brimmed hat.  He wore it fishing at Lake Wohlford.  I can’t find any pictures of him with it on though.

In September I sent out the morning view of the tree in Becky’s back yard.

Something was happening at the top.

Update.  The tree in October.

Yup, something’s happening here.

Ironically, even though we started our birding adventures in Colorado, our Colorado County Map is not completely filled in,

There is still that southwestern gap we haven’t gotten to.  We’ve been to all the counties in Colorado, just not to every one since we started marking them off this way by recording birds in them.