Daily Grind: Spring-time, pigs and Kung-Fu
Players from SASA Stafford Strikers and the Loudon 96 Black congratulate each other following a game at Dixon Street Park in Fredericksburg on March 22, 2009. Soccer players from Virginia and Maryland converged on fields around Stafford and Fredericksburg on the first weekend of spring. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)
Craig Willits runs Spotsylvania Black Belt Academy. Pictured with his daughter-in-law Samantha, and sons Steven (center) and David (right). (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)
Betsey Lukens, a P-1 teacher at Hartwood Elementary school, leans in to kiss Daisy the pig. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)
Kaicelia Goodwin, a P1 student at Hartwood, screams as one of Hartwood's teachers kisses Daisy the pig during an assembly on March 19, 2009. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)
The last couple weeks have been kind of busy with the VNPA annual conference last weekend, the All-Area sportrait series and a handful of regular, grind assignments in there, including first days of spring, a business portrait of a matial arts school owner and a perennial favorite among organs of community journalism, a pig-kissing event at a school to promote reading. I sat through 40 minutes of pig-kissing. The funny thing is that for the students, especially the girl pictured above, it never got old.
