This is the official logo on the t-shirts my friends David and Duncan brought when they were here a couple of weeks ago. Every year when the group of men (we call them "the boys") come to open camp they bring some item imprinted with the logo and name of their camp (Kokosing, which was the name of the girls' camp. When the camp closed and the land was split into 4 lots they bought the part that was the girls' camp--one main building and a bunch of sleeping cabins). 1968 represents the general time I started hanging around with the campers (just the boys, actually). The opening weekends are called Workfests and the November visits by Duncan and David are called Xtreme Workfests, though they mostly climb mountains. Winter visits, new this year and only made by Duncan and David, are called Freeze-fests. David came up with this whole design. Since this is what he does for a living, it's very complex and cool. One year it was a label for Hawkeye Spring Water, with the names of the cabins printed around the square of the label. Anyway, on this Visa card in the background is the view from their boathouse. The hologram is the face of Hartzie, the owner of the camp and the female version of Ken except she ruled with an iron fist. The reference to candy is partly because David sent me a big box of wax bottles and fireballs last year as a reward for seeding part of their yard.

Anyway, I really like these two, I count them among my favorite Hawkeye friends. They're kind, very funny, bright, and really easy on the eyes. And, of course, married.