I asked him, “Dad, are you afraid of dying?” Without hesitation, he looked into my eyes as some sort of reassurance and in his calming voice he replied, “No, but I want to live.” And he smiled. I believed him and I actually understood. In his faith there was no doubt that he believed there […]
I pull it out now and then as I did today. It’s just a beautiful as the day I first saw it, which I actually can’t remember when that day was. But it was on her hand. She never seemed to wear much jewelry, her wedding ring, a brooch, a butterfly neklace, maybe clip on […]
Roach Coach, Taco Truck and now Food Truck, they’re all portable kitchens of goodness. Their infamy took a walk across the street one day and they exploded into the mainstream. You see them everywhere and anywhere…somewhere. From sandwiches to five star gourmet foods. Desserts, drinks, sea food. Everything. People on dates, family outings, meeting friends, […]
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 smoke. The moment of truth in […]
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 […]
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 mathematics/calculators. A school, teachers and […]
A good mid-day ride stop, well, just because that’s when I stopped. Too early for some good bat watching, but just in time for something cold and something warm. Alamo Springs Cafe. How we got there, I’m not still not quite sure being lost in the road and the Texas that embraced the black top. […]
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 are still blue giving a backdrop to the beauty of life. Houston, Texas, we […]