There used to be this roadside bar on 118 South of Alpine, and we the four of us stopped in for a drink. Laird Consadine and Jim Hendrickson on stage were playing to an audience of one, the owner’s wife, who has her back to me. Ellen and Chris Ruggia are in the seat, and Amelie Goodwin is taking the image. I anticipated her flash going off and opened my shutter just a she snapped. *Published in "Big Bend Pictures," University of Texas Press, 2003