[DQDick]

One of the volunteers out here at the Arboretum had a brother-in-law come to visit him from Montana who is a recognized cowboy poet. We invited all the volunteers and staff to a campfire in the evening to hear him perform. As the sun was setting, across the ridge came two riders on horseback silhouetted against the setting sun. Turned out it was two ladies who were kind of lost and needed a ride back to their horse trailer about four miles away. I gave them a ride and then we invited them back to the performance. As it turned out one of the women worked in the mining industry and as such traveled around the mining areas of the country and so she happened to be out riding around here. During the performance it came out that she was from the same part of Montana that the poet and his wife were. Made it a really interesting evening.