You are right - they are valves for water mains, I believe. The coats are insulation blankets - around here it doesn't get very cold, but we can get a day or two that go below freezing.
In some ways, they kind of remind me of Jawas from Star Wars. -- Bruce Sunday, July 16, 2006, 12:12:41 AM, you wrote: DS> Ha. Love it. DS> They're valves of some description. But I gotta' ask, why do they have DS> coats? :-) DS> Dave DS> On 7/15/06, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Perhaps a bit lighthearted - didn't see the resemblance until viewing >> on a bigger screen. >> >> Pentax *istD, A 70-210/4, Handheld >> ISO 200, 1/1000 sec @ f/6.7 >> >> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_3160a.htm >> >> Comments welcome >> >> -- >> Bruce -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

