As artist Jeff Kennedy was preparing for his 'Artist in Residence' week at Gates Au Sable Lodge last fall, he reached out asking if I had any old maps or other materials from the years that I spent in northern Michigan around the Au Sable River and Manistee River.  I went through a few old cigar boxes filled with memories, found a couple of maps, and a stack of photographs that easily date back to the mid 1990's.  I put a package together in hopes that it would give Jeff some inspiration and sent it off in the mail.

Fast forward a few months and hopefully you've already read these two recent T.F.M. posts...

UNVEILING THE JOURNEY - PART 1
UNVEILING THE JOURNEY - PART 2

Yesterday I stopped by the mail box on the way back from town and saw a short cardboard tube with a fly sketched on the end and figured that Jeff was turning the things that I had sent.  Well, he was, but also inside was a colored sketch on his river map that sure does look a lot like the fellow in one of the photos that I sent.