February 16, 2016 - I visited my crop-duster friend Wayne Smith in Edgerly, La. last week.  I first saw Wayne back in the 80’s when he flew his Ag-Cat Crop-duster over a field where I was photographing birds.  He was flying low enough for me to see the cigar in his mouth.

"I remember the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother…" 2 Timothy 1:5

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” - 2 Timothy 2:15

“If any should not work, neither should he eat…” - I Thes. 3:10

December 7, 2015 - In 1962 I moved to Starks, Louisiana a small one- street town in Calcasieu Parish composed of two grocery stores, a post office, a school, and two churches. I was the new Pastor of the First Baptist Church and was asked on my first day to visit Ernest Bachelor, a retired business man.