the times, they have a changed

I moved here in the late 70's. Back then Oakdale had one traffic light,
zero year round Honker population, and it was very rare to see a fly rod on
my 'home water.'

Each year the local phone book has had a cover photo taken locally and
reflecting the area. Traditionally this is dairy and ranch country and most
of those photos contained cows, horses with cows, cowboys or pastoral
landscapes with cows. Thus I found the new one I just got significant and
a little amusing. We now have 10 traffic lights, around 3000 year round
geese here, and lots of fly fishers. Ah, well, at least I like the geese.

My 'home water' about 7 miles from my door, as it appears on the new
phonebook. Fly fishers have become as common as cows :-((

http://www.kimshew.com/phonebook.jpg