What is "Neighbors?"

We all have them. Maybe they are just a peek over the back yard fence or on the other side of the pasture or wheat field.

They are everyday people on the surface, but underneath they possess a unique quality. They may even participate in celebrations, rituals or traditions that are significant to a community or family.

Each month a Tribune photographer will document these unique circumstances and people to offer a brief glimpse of what makes them your neighbors.

Being a Big Brother

Paired as Big Brother and Little Brother in 2004, it took Jeremy Rush and Jordan Skaley, then 8 years old, about a year to get used to each other.

Newborns

A lullaby softly plays in the background as the lights are dimmed in a small room at Medecenter One in Bismarck, producing a relaxed, quiet atmosphere for five newborn babies and their parents.

The Boxers

Inside the Mandan Community Center, participants in the adult volleyball league fill the gym with sounds of servers smacking the ball, grunts from lunging for a dig and cheers on a winning point.

A Baptism

Last week, Rayn Nevaeh Jensen, 8 months old, was welcomed into God's family and into the open arms of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church congregation.

The Bugler

Leonard Brilz has played trumpet in the Little Dutch Band since 1953 and recently in the Little Dixie Band, but his most rewarding and meaningful notes are those he plays over the casket of our nation's veterans.