I mentioned the pole to Scott and asked if he knew who might have painted it. It took a second but there was a mental click and a smile. Back in July of 2012, he was in the area doing some planning for the 2014 JHA conference to be held in Park Rapids. He was visiting a local who had painted his own JH pole in front of his home. (I didn't see that one either although I must have driven right by it.) Scott mentioned that he had paint with him and Frank, the local, told him that a friend, who lived on a fairly obscure original alignment, would love to have a pole painted. A day or two later, Scott went to work. Things were going well until a slip occurred while moving up or down the ladder with the bucket of blue paint in hand. A little splashed on the pole, a little more on the grass and ladder, and a lot on Scott. He managed to clean off enough with paper towels to get into the motel to change clothes. And that's the story of how Scott painted himself, while trimming a pole that Pat photographed, but which I didn't even see.