post-catfish eating

In October of 2003, I snapped this one. Daddy is sitting on the front porch of one of his favorite restaurants, after enjoying all-you-can-eat fried catfish with family. Cigar-smoking was one of his vices from the time I was a kid, but his tastes had improved and his cigars were more pleasingly aromatic by this time.

catfish eaters

Here's Daddy, flanked by two Michiganders in one of his favorite restaurants, for one of his favorite meals. This was taken in January of 2005. Daddy was in heaven, eating all the fried catfish he wanted (I believe it was 11 that day!) and showing others how to partake of that manna.
Daddy would have been 75 today.