Bob Sullivan wrote: > Chris, > > That's a good gallery and representative of rural/small town USA. > Except you forgot the vacant retail shops.
Yes, there were one or two... > Since the 1920's, the > educated and industrious farm folks of the rural midwest have moved > into the big cities. What's left is not very picturesque. > > I have to tell you that the station wagon (Ford Country Squire) really > looks in good condition. It needs wheel covers, but old cars in this > climate develop rust. It is a body cancer that eats from behind the > wheels and along the rocker panels up the car. Think snow versus Road > Salt. OK - given its age it looks pretty good. But, from some close-ups I took, there's a lot of rust on the body; particularly where the wood trim meets metal and round the light clusters. > > And those flames decorating that pickup truck. I'm sure we can get > you some for your car in GB. They are probably a custom paint job, > but we can find decals to send you. You know they make the vehicle go > faster. Good idea, but I suspect that nothing will make my boring diesel estate go faster! > > Regards, Bob S. Thanks for commenting Bob. Chris > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Chris Mitchell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've spent the first few hours of 2011 sorting out some images. After > our > > stay in Chicago for the PDML exhibit, we went out west and spent a > few days > > in picturesque Galena (thanks for the recommendation Christine, we > had a > > great time). > > > > On the way we stopped at Savannah on the Mississippi. It was very > quiet and > > had obviously seen better days. > > > > Small GESO here: > > http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Savannah/ > > > > I'll post some of Galena soon. > > > > Happy new year > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
