Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Photography. Greensboro, North Carolina
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
My wife Dedra and I raised two boys, so for years we never knew what daughters were like. My older son Tristan changed that last year when he married Christine, so we finally have that daughter. All I can say is we didn’t know what we were missing. Christine has lightened up the lives of our whole family. She’s a keeper.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
When we think about plants associated with old Southern home places, magnolia and wisteria come to mind. Another plant that is very familiar is hydrangea. This example is in full bloom just off our back deck. I’m not sure if I enjoy the blue and purples blooms better than the beautiful foliage.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
When the garden starts coming in, the work begins. My wife Dedra and her mother have spent the last week picking, stringing and canning a Southern staple, green beans. The fruits (or in this case, vegetables) of their labors line up on our kitchen table ready to be stored for our enjoyment next winter.
Farmer Frank White of Liberty, North Carolina sod-plants soybeans on a rye field near Lineberry late one afternoon last week. Mr. White raises several hundred acres of beans, corn, and small grains in the Liberty area each year. He uses big equipment, something we don’t get to see often around here these days.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
A clutch of guinea eggs fresh off a nest. Guinea eggs are very rich and are very good to eat. The birds, however, like to nest outside in hard to reach places, so finding their eggs can be an adventure.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
This morning my wife Dedra and I dropped our younger son Devin at the train station in Greensboro to catch a train to Boston. Devin is on his way to Hanover, New Hampshire for a job and graduate school at Dartmouth College, which is a long way from Grays Chapel, North Carolina. We will miss him profoundly, but a new adventure in life awaits him. Godspeed Son, we love you.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
A two day old baby calf flexes it’s muscles in our farm pasture in Randolph County, North Carolina.
Farming is many times a exercise in compromise. Abundant rain means a lot of grass and a lot of hay. Overabundant rain means a lot of grass and the lack of good weather to harvest hay. Our area has fallen into the later category this year. We have a tremendous amount of hay, but we haven’t had a lot of good weather up until now to make it, and nothing upsets a farmer more than wet hay. Greg Williams of Williams Dairy, south of Greensboro works late in the afternoon to catch up on his baling.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Wild day-lilies bloom beside a corn field along a road near Millboro in rural Randolph County, North Carolina. I say wild, because even though the original stock probably started from garden plants at old homeplaces, day-lilies have spread along the roads and fields in our area, and during this time of year create a splash of color everywhere.
Odell Routh of Lineberry, North Carolina, south of Greensboro works on replacing the brake master cylinder of his 1946 Willys CJ2A Jeep in his garage at Routh Oil Co.. The vehicle is actually an “Agri-Jeep”, a post war, civilian model of the famous World War II military vehicle. Odell has long been a vehicle restorer, and currently has several he has restored and is working on, including another Willys, a 1948 four wheel drive pickup.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
