Ed Watkins is pure country, he loves moving around, working outdoors (or indoors). He is shocked that I don’t drink much, and disappointed. He urges me to try a beer, which I have never had.  He was up on the roof today, painting and singing, and I liked this shot of the man on the roof, working in the sun, happy as he could be.

Ed loves to drink, but he is careful not to drink and drive (“can’t do that anymore,”  he says, sadly.) He stops at his house or the house of one his co-workers at the end of the day sometimes, for a “highball.” He works continuously, he says our farmhouse needs some loving.