In a message dated 9/11/2006 7:09:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This just amused me. > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/tourist.htm >
Wow, I just scanned an old slide that has that very tree in it - I took it back in 1979. That darned tree is still there... but minivans and digital cameras didn't exist the last time I was there! http://charles.robinsontwins.org/1979_california/pages/page_2.html It's kitschy stuff, but fun to look at years later. -Charles ========== Kitsch, that's a good word. :-) Yup. My title was a play on words, too, my shot is of a tourist taking a shot (I did not know these people). What amused me was it was the most assembly line tourist shooting I have ever seen. 1. Car pull up to one side of tree. 2. Person hop out and walk through to other side of tree. 3. Car drive part way through tree, person take shot. 4. Car drive all the way through, person get back in car. 5. Next car do the same thing -- one after another. I didn't do it, because there was only me, but I obviously also did not realize how I was supposed to assembly line it (I could have driven car to point I could hop out and take shot). I am sure there are other places in the world where there is assembly line tourist shooting, but this was the first I'd ever seen. No one told them how to do it either, they just did it. It's a very neat tree, looks very healthy, as tall as any I saw, and this has been going on for years and years and years and years (hollowed out in the 1920's). Somehow it has remained healthy all this time. And, yup, minivans, etc. fit through it. Kitsch about sums it up. :-) Thanks, Charles. Marnie -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
