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Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack
Garry, you should have an artist do a rendition of the picture of you looking over that barbwire fence and title it as you did your post. The combinations of visual mood and verbage are simply poetic. Having hunted much of the same ground 40 plus years ago, Elaine's photos and your narratives of this milieu really put the lid on it for me. Thanks so much for sharing and taking me back!
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Thanks, Kevin, I might see if I can recreate that photo you cite in a watercolor. I remember your accounts of hunting Southern Iowa from past posts. It just dawned on me (duh!), that we’ve been hunting Iowa for over 40 years and that our paths may have crossed “back then” — what a small world.
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