Here is the card I received on Father's Day:
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I found a
photograph taken here in Madison in the early 1970s, I think, basically just a few blocks down
the street from us. So I biked over there one day to try and take a picture
from roughly the same spot 50 or so years later.
The facility
was retired in 1972 and the land sold to the city which made it a park. I've wandered that section of the park but could find nothing left of the old Air Force site except for some barbed wire tipped fence
at the top of the hill.
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On one recent Saturday morning I headed out for a bike ride. My only goal that day was to check
out a subdivision on the far southeast side – Lost Creek - whose streets were all
named after Beatles songs (and one John Lennon tune). I thought it'd be fun to get a snap of the signs for
Day Tripper Drive and Penny Lane.
Since it was
on the way, I stopped at my beloved Acewood Conservation Park. It had been very
dry as of late so the retention pond was quite shallow but it was a lovely morning and
birds were singing all around me.
My next
detour was to go down a sidewalk which I'd spotted when I had ridden by on previous occasions. All I'd been able to see previously was that it led into some tall grass and disappeared in the distance. I found that it
ran alongside the sheds of a storage joint before ending a bit shy of a quarry. (A junk yard and now a quarry. Doctor Who references are everywhere!) Nothing
exciting but I did spy a red winged blackbird that was flying back and forth between two
trees. I feared that I would be attacked again as I had been in Dubuque a week
or so earlier. Instead, I caught this:
And then not
2 seconds later.
"Howdy
neighbor. Nice day we're having today."
I made my
way back to the road and continued riding until I came to an abandoned farm.
Lost Creek could wait as I just had to take a look. There was a for sale sign out front and its current residents, some turkeys,
were out for a stroll.
The remains of an old windmill were slowly being consumed by nature. It was a scene that would not have been out of place in Annihilation.
Lost Creek
is a small neighborhood and quite secluded. Yesterday Drive is the only street
that connects the subdivision to the main road. The rest of it is either fenced off or ends at
some woods. My mission was accomplished as I biked down Penny Lane.
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