4 NEBRASKAland • JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016
Brad Goetsch's "A Message From Heaven" photograph won the Reader's Choice
Award for NEBRASKAland's 2015 Photo Contest.
Brad Goetsch's "A Message From Heaven" photograph won the Reader's Choice
Smiling Dog
The photo on the back cover of the
December 2015 issue is the greatest!
We decided to save that picture so that
if anyone ever needs cheering up, all
they need to do is look at that picture!
She not only looks like she is having
a great time, but also really wants
to have her picture taken. We had a
yellow Lab some years ago who we
could easily imagine in that hat with
that grin, but Abby is the best. Thanks
to her human companions for sharing
with everyone.
John Crawford
Valentine, Nebraska
Count Lilly In
This is a picture of my 10-year-old niece, Lilly Counts, whom I took up in the
Sandhills in Cherry County north of Halsey on private land of some friends that
we have been going on for many years. At a time when many lands in Nebraska
are increasingly being attached to "for payment/lease hunts," there are still many
Nebraska farmers and ranchers that like to let folks hunt, with permission, who
they know have a love for the land and Nebraska and hunting.
Lilly is an adventurous young lady from Plano, Texas, and has talked about
wanting to come along on one of our hunts for the last couple of years. She waited
patiently with her .410 shotgun in 25 degrees and snow, and with one shot had her
first turkey.
A memory that she will always have and another young hunter for future years
of Nebraska hunting!
Tim Counts
Temple, Texas
Deer hunter Evan Horak took this photo with his
iPhone through his rifle scope while in the Keya
Paha Unit near Mills during the November firearm
season. The little buck kept hanging out near the
blind where Evan and his father were sitting in.
