Sometimes, it is a pleasure to pay people hundreds of dollars for good work done so well. Vince Vecchio is a builder and an excavator, he moves the earth around the same way and as easily as I move the camera from one place to another. He came to the country in 1971 and has made a life her as a good and hard-working who can be trusted to do what he says he will do.

Such a man is of great value anywhere, but especially in the country, and even more so when dealing with someone like me, who has no real idea of how the material world works. Vince is a country guy now, a big man in a truck, but at heart, I think, he is a Jersey guy.

I recognize this breed because I lived in New Jersey for more than 20 years. These are the people you call in a bind, the people who come running, the people you can trust intuitively. He came this morning, leveled our bumpy driveway, made room to park our cars.

Vince is a big man in truck here, but he is forever a Jersey guy, and I mean that in the best Springsteen  sense. A family guy too.  Work and family is what drives him, and he re-arranged our earth a bit here in just a couple of hours. I think the portrait captures a bit of his sturdiness.