Hats

July 28

I am thankful for hats. I don't know what it is, but I have always loved them. I collect hats (and photographs) like many people collect souvenir T shirts. Although I have a few souvenir T shirts, for me it's hats. I've loved wearing hats since I was a small boy. My favorites are the wide brim hats that shade your head and neck very well. But those are more expensive and are harder to store, so my collection consiststs mostly of baseball style hats (I call them golf hats though). The biggest problem with hats is how and where to store them. My solution has been to put them in a plastic storage bin. I was just now counting my hats and was up to 36 with more uncounted so it has to be well over 50 or more! When I went to Texas for the first time, my souvenir was a straw cowboy hat. When I left Texas after graduating from UT with my masters, was a black felt cowboy hat. What can I say! I just love hats. I like to coordinate my hat color with my clothes' outfit; therefore the need for hats of all colors. When i was doing the Audubon Golf Trail book I had to get a souvenir hat from each of the twelve trail courses when I played them. My Facebook photo is me with all of those hats.

I was trying to figure out how to take a picture of my hats. I got the crazy idea of a hat tree. I waited until Bebe was at work and Beth was gone (I knew I'd get in trouble if I got caught bringing out the tree!) and I pulled out my daughter's artificial Christmas tree and loaded it with hats. I was hoping to get all of my hats on it, but there was no way with that small tree. I probably would have had to uncrate out our large Christmas tree, but that is such a pain to get out and then pack up that I decided the small one would have to do. My daughter Beth came home before I had a chance to put it up and she thought I was crazy. Luckily, it got put up long before Bebe came home! Below is a photo I took at the Bayou Recruiting Bash of a lady in a purple plaid Ben Hogan style LSU hat.

July 28b

hats

hats tell the person

what the person does

hats shade the eyes and head

hats tell who the man was

a cook has his hat

a cowboy has his own

a green beret, a baseball player

their hats are always worn

tom terrific had his thinking funnel hat

sherlock a double brim with ear flaps

the lone ranger his ten gallon hat

beany flew with his propeller cap

i like my hats

but nothing so fancy or daring

they are colorful, distinctive, and useful

with you this secret i am sharing

i could go

from places here to there

with a touch of  unusual

in the hats that i wear.

© rt tulley