A shorts sojourn into some of the American South. A photographic essay and record with journal notes: Pecan tree orchards make a new attempt with brush piles waiting to be burned. Old slave quarters converted. Sheet steel roofing, rusted and painted and more pickup trucks and semi-tractor cabs than anywhere. I am endlessly grateful we are visiting this land before the heat comes. Pump-jack donkeys suck oil in the front yards of those prosperous and smart enough to negotiate their mineral rights.