It was quiet at the Bog (Foggy Notions) tonight, Kelly said it is school tax payment time, and many people cut back on eating out until they get their taxes paid. It is something I never would have thought of until recently, and our school taxes were more than $3,000, we cut back quite a bit this month.

But we have enough left over for the bog, two people can eat well there for $25 and when you work all day in the house, you sometimes just need to get out. Some younger people went over to the pool game and I heard the soft and satisfying click of the balls hitting one another and bouncing off the sides.

I spent a good deal of time playing pool once, and it is a sweet sound, full of memory. I asked them if I could take their picture, and one asked if I wanted to photograph them because they were women playing pool.

No, I said, because I just wanted a photograph of people playing pool. They happily agreed.