Out of the many photos that I had taken in 2011, this one here of the old man at Fort Langley has to be my favorite face photo. Not counting my many favorite photos of my kids, of course.
Just looking at him, you could tell that he’s such an interesting character –the long hair, the tan leathery skin, those eyebrows, the eyes that miss nothing. He was giving a talk about how wooden barrels were made back in the olden days. What do I care about wooden barrels, but he kept me standing there and listening until he finished his demo and talk. I was more captivated by how efficiently he moved about, by the way his eyes would twinkle when he shared something funny, by the way he would impatiently sweep his hair to one side when it got in the way.
If I drink beer, I’d offer to buy him a couple just to sit and listen. You know that you’d get a good yarn or two out of him.
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