CAROLINA OUTSIDE WRITING CONTEST WINNER..................

 

READ THE AWARD WINNING ESSAY

 

 

Good day Mr. Brown.

    Bryan, I hope you and everything at Carolina Outside are well today.    

    I also apologize that it has taken me so long to send this appreciative photo and my words of thanks.  I've been patiently waiting for both cooperative weather and the proper lighting to snap a quality photograph to send you.  (But we all know that Mother Nature isn't always so kind.  Don't we?)

 

    Here I am with my new Coleman Sundome tent displaying the October issue of your Carolina Outside magazine.  While these surroundings I stand are not necessarily 'that place I'd rather be' they are very similar, none the less. 

                 Jeffrey Alan Boop

   

This is a ranch not far from my present home in Avon, Ohio.  It contains several beautiful pastures, riding fields then acre upon acre of other "wild" fields and forests.  With several hundred acres available they not only stable hordes of horses but vast amounts of rascally rabbits, a few fuzzy ferrets and many monster -like mutts! 

    I've spent many hours walking dogs for Love -A- Stray kennels there in the past year.  (They  are very humane organization that never puts an animal down.  Each is kept healthy and safe until it finds a home.)  As I said, its not quite my home on that lake but very close none the less.  Many fond memories flash through my mind each day as I step through the trees and across those fields.  (Usually with some dastardly doggy pulling me along!)