Foilboarder Jim Schneider works to lift his board onto its foil running into nearly 30 miles per hour wind gusts across Hoover Reservoir Sunday afternoon with other boarders. My Final Photo for February 25, 2024.

A bagpiper treads away from the American Legion Honor Guard and the family and friends of 97-year-old Donald Conard, World War II veteran and survivor of the Japanese strike on the USS Franklin CV-13, after his funeral Saturday at Blendon Cemetery. My Final Photo for February 24, 2024.

Acorn Nursery’s greenhouses covered in plastic for the winter sit along Alum Creek just below the Alum Creek Park dam, in the background. My Final Photo for February 12, 2024.

With the Red Bank bridge at the horizon and a minimum of four boats to race on a winter day, a quartet of sailors from the Hoover Sail Club pass the final buoy on the final race Sunday afternoon. My Final Photo for February 11, 2024.

A nine-year-old boy unscrews the door of a bluebird house for cleaning in a prairie field at Hoover Reservoir along Sunbury Road under the direction of his grandfather who watches from a short distance. My Final Photo for February 7, 2023.