Wait for the Photo
Tom Parker’s meal at the Emma Chase Cafe.
Dave and I met Tom and Lori Parker and Jack Casner at the Emma Chase Cafe in Cottonwood Falls for lunch on Saturday. And, you know, since I write a travel blog, I like to show what’s out there in Kansas – what to see, what to do, and what to eat.
So, I take photos, but usually just of my food and often Dave’s food. Despite Tom’s claim that I’m something of a photo Nazi, I only take photos of other people’s food if they offer up their plates.
Tom and Lori are fun people. They’re from Washington County and they’ve come to our area twice and it’s our turn to visit them. Tom is an amazing writer and photographer, a photojournalist. He excels at both the written and visual arts, darned him. Here’s an example of his writing, a news story he wrote in June when a murder suspect shot a cop in Blue Rapids and took a hostage: Small Town Under Siege.
Below are some of his blog entries from Saturday’s “Return to PrairyErth” film premiere at which William Least Heat-Moon appeared. The event was held at Pioneer Bluffs, just north of Matfield Green in Chase County.
Tom’s posts: PrairyErth, The Q of Quoz, and This photo cost me $5,124.00.
A food photo Nazi!? Egads!! Never, ever would I claim such a thing. Slavishly, obsessively dedicated to the craft of culinary photography, maybe, but I would never reference your pre-meal cameratic blessing to members of the Third Reich. Damn their eyes.
But, hey, that burger looks good. Mmmm, I wish we were still there.