The Cowboy

Pine Hill, NJ

It has been 12 days since I've added a photo to the blog. Two words: Work and Mom. At work we have become so short-handed that every week I work from 3 to 4 hours overtime. This coming shift I may have to work to 4AM on 2 consecutive days. The other is my mom's broken hip. I spend a lot of time running out to see her, checking on her apartment and taking care of her bills. So the blog has taken a back seat.

The other day I got a box of slides back. Most of the images have been of tree bark and dead tree branches. This image above is from a dogwood tree that died 2 years ago. We have left most of the tree standing. The birds crawl along the trunk hunting for small bugs, etc....

With much of the bark gone, I got this really neat red, yellow and black image. A man began to pop out and I see a hat. Then I began to see this cloak around the man's shoulders. At the bottom on the left could be an animal's skull that might be seen out on the plains or desert. Although the cowboy's horse in not visible, I had the feeling he was riding it, maybe on a rainy night just outside of town.