straw, panama, plam,etc
straw, panama, plam,etc
hats...ooooooohh...😛 😀 😛
my wife's line is: "what you're buying/bought another hat?" (...camera, pen, etc)
😛 she is the soul of practicality...i could (and have) learned a alot about that and many other good things from her.
living in central texas where we have about
10 1/2 months of summer i almost always leave the house with a cowboy hat or panama or reed/palm broad-brimmed hat (or baseball style cap). too, too many years outdoors have left my skin more sun sensitive. i really like being outside, but i don't like the outside beating me down, so hello hats and long-sleeve shirts.
🙂 i like the look and style of "most" of what would be called western wear. for me that includes cowboy hats. i like the look and how i feel when i wear one.
there are few miscellaneous "gimme hats"/baseball style hats, there's the black beaver cowboy hat i got married in, my "indiana jones" hat, a black beret from my army days, and a few others.
some of my favorites are the straw and palm - what i call - mexican range hats...boy, do they have broad brims. whenever i'm using a camera with a waist level view finder i find the over-hang of the brim really helpful creating a sort-of focussing cloth shade - making it easier to see the viewfinder.
if i'm going to be be on a boat, on a pier or on a horse the hat o' the day/chapeau de jour will usually have a stampede strap to keep it from flying away...my big brother once
"saved" one strapless hat with a big silver spoon lure. it blew off my head while we were at the end of a pier on the gulf coast and started to float away. he made a sharpshooter of a cast, nailed it and retreived it for me. it was a little worse for the experience, but it still fit - made a string strap and that was that.
i buy all brands from "whatever" to store brands to turner to stetson.
on my recent return to beslan, russia i wore a a very, very light tan (almost white) straw stetson. i wasn't too worried about trying to blend in...at 6'5" and 260 i 'd have to wear a ghillie suit not to be noticeable.
😛 it was just how i usually dress
and i didn't mind the visibility. i was over there trying to continue to help the healing process (through my non-profit organization, NEVER FORGET BESLAN,
www.neverforgetbeslan.org &
www.neverforgetbeslan.com).
if i'm recognized as an american (the headwear of usa olympic athletes is the - the cowboy hat) while i'm doing this,
all the better. maybe i can provide a small
positve image of america, maybe not.
it may not change how america is viewed one whit...it may. i'm the the eternal optimist.
btw, i don't think americans hold the patent or franchise on reaching out and caring for people in need. i hope i didn't give that impression. wherever disasters occur in the world the response is always from many, many, many countries. i hope other communities in other countries will reach out (again) to beslan and in what will be an ongoing recovery process for many generations.
WOW!! have i ever drifted on this one.
😱 i apologize for the drift here.
😱 this ain't hyde park, put away the soap box.
😱
we were talking about hats
😀 😛 😀
thanks to everyone that waded through this stream of consciousness in my many islands in the stream.
(psssst: i' m staying, i really like fuji apples, the most recent d-r-a-m-a, and boy are you guys and gals here at rff tolerant of long-winded, run-on sentence writing, beat-your-own-drum lowercase hunt-and-peck posters - like me.
🙂
breathe, relax, and enjoy!!
kenneth lockerman
NEVER FORGET BESLAN
www.neverforgetbeslan.org
www.neverforgetbeslan.com
