I took this photo of Maria because I wanted to, I love taking portraits of Maria. In this shot, she is wearing the Tilley hat she stole from me and wears every day. If she sees any article of mine that she likes, she just takes it, and since she never buys anything for herself, it’s a way of giving her a gift. I usually don’t even know it’s gone until it’s too late.

The tip off is when she says, “oh, are you still wearing those jeans?” It means they are gone. Here, she is on the way to the manure pile in pretty much the same clothes she wears to go to the theater.