Paul Bunyan and Babe, his Blue Ox, Bemidji, Minn.

Below:  That's my dad and me at Paul's right leg.  (Photo taken in July 1951.)

I was in Bemidji, Minnesota, for at least a day in June 1951

Mom's note on the back side of the postcard.

My cousin, Roger Nyquist, wrote the following note on the back of this "snap".

Please return.
Isn't Paul cute-looking?
Would cut off the head.

Obviously, Mom never returned the photo to Roger.  And, yeah, I was a cutie back then, although you can barely see Dad and me standing next to Paul Bunyan's right boot.

In this second photo, I assume Roger is playing the organ at Messiah Lutheran Church, in Auburn, Washington, where Dad served as pastor from 1943 to 1952.  Roger was a month away from his 17th  birthday at the time.