The wind blew gently through the leaves of the old oak tree in our backyard. I climbed its lower branches and worked slowly to the narrower branches at the top, cocooning myself comfortably on a ledge of sorts formed by four branches coming together.
I rested my back against the most upright branch, hung my legs, swinging off the side of the biggest branch (the one I was sitting on), and simply swayed with the breeze. As far as I could see was Wisconsin blue sunshine. A few puffy white clouds hanging lazily over "the hill" as we called it — the backside of an active quarry.
The day, like most of my childhood summer days, was lazy and relaxing. If anybody had asked, I would have told them, like the famous Calvin & Hobbes cartoon, "The days are packed." But, they weren't.
An almost-final draft of our keepsake postcard.
There was a rythym to the summer and I enjoyed every minute of it — a feeling that you help create for park users all season long.
It was this sense that we asked our illustrator to convey when we hired her to create a special cover and accompanying keepsake postcard for our June Parks issue.
If you subscribe to the print edition of PRB+ Magazine, you'll receive this issue and a postcard in the mail in early June. If you don't subscribe — first of all, shame on you :) But second of all, you should consider doing so.
And, if you just really want this one issue to frame or you want a pack of postcards to mail to friends and family, then you can do that too.
Thanks for continuing to choose PRB+ – stay tuned for more fun subscriber benefits, coming soon.
