Hard Work, sweat and smoke…

BBQ Cook Off, Santa Anna, Tx. World Bison Cook Off. After a long night and early morning the pit master now running off adrenaline alone prepares the the meat for submission. In this shot, Pork ribs. The world seeming distant as time closes in on hard work, sweat and...

Ringing the Bell

He had a bad knee from a break while diggig us a storm cellar, but he would still kneel by my bed when I was sick as a child. His hands were huge, as I still remember them, strong from years of hard work. He’d place them on my forehead and pray. The weight alone...

Math Anyone?

There would not be Friday night lights at the football field, not the sound of a buzzer winning basket in the air, or the roar of the crowd to a home run. It was an entire school and townspeople gathering to send off a group of students state bound in...

Blacktop Fields

Texas, sometimes those back roads aren’t covered with trees and wild flowers. Nor the grassy hillsides rolling and full of natures beasts frolicking in its shelter. Sometimes the back roads are neighborhoods, blacktop fields riddled with thick air. But the skies...

Chrysanthemum

She knew every responsive reading by memory, every hymn, once I asked her if she knew his sermons by memory, she said he’d never given the same sermon twice. I was amazed that she knew all these things, it would be a game for me. She would pull the old hymn book from...