Bruce and the skeeters

05-06-2009

This morning while out on the banks of the Satilla River taking pictures and fighting more "skeeters" I saw a man in a boat fishing around the bend. He came nearby and asked if I had any bug spray and I told him "yea, I think I've got the flavor they like!" He pulled his boat over and grabbed hold on a limb and asked who I was and I told him. "You are Bruce's buddy right?"

"Bruce who?"

"Bruce Davis, he's my nephew."

"Sure am."

I've known Bruce since the first grade but Sammy told me things I'd never known about him. When he was born he had an enlarged liver along with his blindness. The doctors told the parents if he lived until he was six months old to bring him back and they would see what they could do to help him. He rode a bike when he was young and about 1983 Sammy passed a car on a dirt road that was driving fairly slow and saw it was Bruce behind the wheel with his dad sitting next to him. He was determined not to let a little thing like being blind stop him from doing things. Now he is the Brantley County dispatcher for the road department and I don't think you can find many people that can give you better directions in this county and most anywhere else. He is also a great musician and when we get through with our conversation he will always say "see you later!"

This is one of the photos I got this morning while feeding the skeeters and one of Bruce awhile back when he was "showing" me a pretty place on the river.