Dear Country…

Ruthann, my 11-year-old daughter, likes to have her hair set in curlers and decided she would let them set while looking for the needle.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the photograph on the back cover of the April/May issue (above). MARY LOU STASIEK

Harvard, Illinois

TERRIFIC AND SHARP

scenes in the April/May issue! Regarding “Storm Chaser,” on page 14, I would have quit haying!

There were no lupines in Buffalo, New York, where I used to live. My first exposure to lupines was in the Navy when I was on Kodiak Island in Alaska. The photograph of lupines in Acadia National Park on page 34 (“Parks in Bloom”) was so sharp that I felt as if I were there.

What a heartwarmer on the last page! Oh, to be a kid again. At 90 years of age, perhaps I do not want to go that far back! Thank you all. Extend my subscription two more years.

JIM MITSCHER

Manlius, New York

I WAS PLEASED to see the article on Michigan’s Old Mission Peninsula in the April/May issue (“Old Mission’s Top 10 Destinations,” page 40).

I lived in Traverse City for more than 25 years before my family moved to southeast Michigan. My girls and I would drive the peninsula in spring to see all of the cherry blossoms. Again in the fall we would stop at Underwood Orchards to get some fresh apple cider and doughnuts, and there the girls would pick out their pumpkins. Then we’d drive to the Old Mission Lighthouse to enjoy our treats. Thank you for bringing back these memories.

WHEN I RECEIVE my latest issues of Country and Country Extra, most generally I search as many as 10 times or more before locating the needle. Here’s a poem about the search:

There was some thread

Among the hay,

But that elusive needle? What can I say?

Maybe it’s in Hattie’s hat, But that can’t be;

It’s in the Country. Ouch! Just pricked my

finger.

Whew! It didn’t feel good. Ah, there it is on page ?? Found that elusive needle. I knew I could!

And that’s how it is in the

Country, folks.

Like “trying to find a

needle in a haystack”!