Gus!

In the mid-forties,at an age when he could not even vote,my friend Gus

enroled in the Merchant Navy and travelled the world.Back home after a

5 years stint,he acquired squills as an ironworker which he exercised

until retirement.

Now an active 85 years old,he keeps his remote country homestead going

including cutting his yearly need of firewood for our hard

winters,handling all this and more with his ingeneously rigged used

equipment such as the tractor and trailer he proudly rides in the

photo.He is a going concern and a genuine obscur HERO.

Here is my hero, served the Country, work hard and is still going at 85! May be an projecting, the want ot be energetic at 85...Congratulations you have another winner here! Warm regards my friend.

Very well done and composed!

A great slice of life well presented.  Great color pallet, great composition.  Makes me wonder where it is.  The foliage on the trees in back on the right half pull the viewer's eye right into the image and back again to the driver.

Thank you for viewing and for the observation my friend.I will extend your kind thoughts to him.

Merci et meilleures salutations-Laurent

Thank you for viewing and for the kind appreciation.

Meilleures salutations-Laurent

Thank you kindly.This was taken in the fall with the trees in color;I was a little tight on the bottom with my shot and the image would have been better balanced if cropped tighter from the top,but I wanted to keep some of the background colors.This is in N-E New Brunswick and my friend was off to get another load of firewood to haul to his shed before the arrival of the snow.

Meilleures salutations-Laurent