Julie Shields, was on the phone with her sister, Laura McComb, when their Wimberely, TX cabin was swept away during the Memorial Day floods of 2015.  Shot for Texas Monthly

Jane, Dewberry Hills Farm, sustainable, organic chicken farmer

for Edible Austin

(my) wife,  our daughter Frances' mother, author, educator Kate Payne

chef Sonya Cote & farmer John Engle for Sustainable Food Center 

Nicole Ilana Paige, transgender friend in Long Island beauty salon (1947-2015)

Nicole was born Arthur Silbersptiz (born in a Ausburg, Germany displacement camp following World War II )- a Vietnam war era Army Medic, husband and father is now becoming Nicole

singer, songwriter Elsa Cross

Kizzy, a on again off again the streets East Austin friend

farmer Colby of Smith & Smith farms. Shot for Edible Austin

Ty, Windy Hill Foods, sustainable central Texas meat farmer

for Edible Austin                                            

wife Kate and furry child Isobel at Garner State Park