Later, he drives through rolling corn-stubbled fields in his truck, parking to scan for hawks, snow buntings, horned larks, and just maybe a snowy owl.
None of the shots that struck Tommy Smith outside his mother's house among the stubbled grain fields of Arcola, Illinois, came from his own gun.
In a stubbled rice field just outside of this village, our miles inside the Parrot's Beak area of Cambodia, the brand was Carling Black Label, and after two warm cans, the South Vietnamese commander of a squadron of armored cavalry troops flopped on a mat in the shade of one his armored personnel carrier and promptly fell asleep.
Abandoned farmhouses and shacks dot the flat terrain, which is stubbled with wheat fields and blanketed by oaks and evergreens.
"The market says plant more," said Eugene Schroder, who farms about 4,000 acres here in the flatlands of southeast Colorado near the Oklahoma border, where agriculture's fingerprint stretches beyond the eye's ability to see — some fields stubbled and cleared in post-harvest, others tasseled and green with corn.
Carroll's recent watercolors are fields of stubbled color, and when she looks in the mirror, she sees death emerging from the living ground of herself.
I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, in one blue field, in stubbled color.
Some subjects viewed sets of photos in which most of the men were clean-shaven, while others saw mostly the heavily stubbled or bearded versions, and others saw intermediate ranges of stubble and beardiness.
He rubbed his stubbled face and answered questions.
"Hey, I was here first," a stubbled man bellowed.
