Willie Wagon

Day Two of the Grants Pass basketball tournament. Only 102 degrees today, a real cool down. After two games in the oven gyms, we came outside to the unmistakeable tunes of the Ice Cream Machine wheeling down the hot southern Oregon streets. Pressed for time for a decent blip, I stopped the guy, took his picture, then emptied my wallet for ice cream for a couple of surprised team members. The girls are gassed, no doubt about it, but they battled hard today. And the beauty of it is there's no drama, even when they get down, they pick each other up with a positive word, a pat on the back...encouraging, like the tune of the Willie Wagon Ice Cream truck on a 102 degree day.