Thomas Does Radio or Something

This year, I finally had the station and wherewithal to operate Winter Field Day 2022 representing Four Lakes ARC . I had other priorities on Saturday, but Sunday was just a matter of getting started early enough. Waking up, showering, gathering the station components, and transport to the local park I had in mind left me with barely two hours of the event remaining. Arriving at the scenic overlook of Madison's Hoyt Park before the rotating groups of, ah, recreational smokers, started happening gave me easy access to the benches in the park to be my operating position. Blanket on a bench with my backpack, radio carrying case, and red clipboard for paper logging. First operational use of my tripod and jackite pole wire antenna in the background. No question about it, this is a 1 Oscar station; no walls to separate me and my one radio from the outdoors!