A grandfather-grandson hike ends at a vista of the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse in northwestern Oregon. The inquisitive, scientific-minded lad has many questions about the shuttered, abandoned, off-shore beacon on a perfect summer day. There's a strange symmetry to the numerical answers. But the older man's number is almost up. And then, many years later ...
Rating: G (ok for all ages).
Word count: 2020 (original manuscript) .