Ashley Ashwood Tribute

One of my best memories of Ashley was at Dick's Last Resort in Dallas, TX. He was on some photo trip with BCal that landed in Dallas where my husband and I lived so we suggested Dick's as a place to meet for dinner (along with about 10 or so of the British crew).

Ashley was VERY fond of Texas barbeque since the very first time my father introduced him to the Salt Lick in the Texas hill country. The Ashwoods' summer visits to our place in Fischer, Texas were the highlight of my father's last few years -- Daddy used to start saying in about February, "When are the English coming?"

Well, that night at Dick's, Ashley was all the way at one end of the long table and Norris and I were at the other. There was a lot of noise and laughter, and Norris was hard-pressed to understand a word these Brits were saying. He just stared in awe at this world-traveled Englishman, Ashley, eating a rib with barbeque sauce literally from ear to ear on this face. At one point, Ashley took the rib bone and used it to wipe the sauce from his cheeks. Norris was 100% Texan as well as a Paris-trained French Chef. He took great pride in telling this story over and over again to pretentious foodies we'd meet.

All those little memories of Ashley's zest for life will never be lost in my mind. I find them every now and then and they not only make me smile, but they become expert tour guides to many other good memories..........