SOLD
11 x 14
Oil on Wood Panel
For Sale and on Display at Artsource Fine Art, Raleigh, NC
It's that time of year again. Dogwoods are blooming. Herring, White Perch, Hickory Shad, and Rockfish are running up the Cashie and Roanoke. Gobblers are gobbling, and folks have their straw hats back on and cane poles in hand. These are all signs that Spring has sprung in Bertie County, but only after Billy "Grunt" Dunlow doesn't see his shadow and then strips down to nothing but denim cutoff shorts and hops on his spit shined cub cadet lawnmower to cut his whole front yard without his cigarette ever leaving his upper lip. This is Nature's call to wake up and come alive!
Billy Grunt Dunlow
2015
Every Spring we load up our white perch baskets and drive to the Jordan (pronounced Jer-den) Farm to set 'em on the banks of the Roanoke. At the gate to the farm is a huge metal culvert allowing swamp water to run under the dirt bridge. Folks from around "The Neck" often come here with their poles and throw their lines out around the lily pads catching speckle perch, white perch, brim and the occasional Chub (aka largemouth Bass).
I love to always pull up in my truck, cut my engine off and roll down the window with the same exact question I had the day before,
"Caught any?"
" A few,"
" Any Size?"
"Right Fair"
"10-4"
Jordan Farm
Circa 2014
