4 NEBRASKAland • JULY 2015
Honking for Nebraska
I wanted to send my congratulations
on the excellent "Nebraska On My
Mind" article written by Michael
Forsberg in the June issue of
NEBRASKAland.
I too honk the car horn when me and
my family enter Nebraska on our way
home from visiting relatives in Denver.
I was glad to hear someone else does
this crazy ritual. Normally I hit the
horn with the "There's no place like
Nebraska" tune when we cross into
Nebraska.
Being born and raised on a
northeastern Nebraska farm, I also have
a fond love of the land as described by
Mr. Forsberg.
My two daughters, now grown, also
made sure we honked the horn upon
entering Nebraska. My wife, being a
native of Colorado, at first thought this
"honking" was nuts but now completes
the tradition when it's her turn to drive
us home across the state line.
Yes, there is No Place Like
Nebraska!
Douglas A. Koopman
Hastings, Nebraska
A Canada goose flies over Pioneers Park
in Lancaster County. Photo by Mitch
Tranmer.
Four-year-old Wyatt Niebuhr holds up a
bluegill while fishing with his dad on a
lake in Hall County. Photo by Kay Niebuhr.
Andrew Nelson of Orting, Washington,
shot this white-tailed buck on private land
in Cherry County. Photo by Rusty Lurz.
Cece Grimes took this eastern fox
squirrel image in downtown Lincoln in
Lancaster County.
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Nebraska
on
My
Mind
Photos
and
story
by
Michael
Forsberg
When
I
was
a
kid,
Dad
would
always
honk
the
horn
of
our
intrepid
Volkswagen
412
as
we
would
cross
the
state
line
back
into
Nebraska
from
wherever
it
was
we
had
been
during
our
summer
family
vacations.
A
Rocky
Mountain
bee
plant
opens
like
a
blooming
fi
rework,
revealing
a
visiting
ladybug,
on
the
Sandhills
prairie
in
July.
Paul Pack photographed this great blue heron with a bluegill in its beak on a private
pond in Dawson County.
