What a wonderful place, Frank, and one that includes you as part of its character, I'm sure. There's much bittersweetness for those of us who knew coverts "back when," but we have that in our memory, and you certainly know how to appreciate it all.
Thanks for your post. I really enjoyed it.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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