Each summer beginning in the early 1960’s we made the trek from Oklahoma City to Lake Taneycomo which wraps around Branson, MO around to Forsyth, MO. Fishing for trout was always the agenda, anything else was a side trip. There were a few times we missed a few years. We returned to the regular trip in 1994. Again with a few exceptions we made the annual trek for the past 15 years.

Here we are again.

This time we go with our grown girls and their husbands. Add in my folks and my brothers and their family and there will be plenty of Littletons, too many for most. But, we go and enjoy nonetheless. Fishing, reading, Bocce, throwing the frisbee, photography, and more fishing. All of this feet from the lake. We will enjoy the Lake Effect.

Writing from the hotel in Springfield may well be the last post for a week. Just call it the “Lake Effect.”