Yeah! To hell with these damn lawn gnomes. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > There are two bonuses about this suburban hippo: > > 1. It is located on the main road in Oldwick, NJ, > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldwick,_New_Jersey), a sleepy village > consisting mainly of Victorian, Federal, New England and Georgian > style homes protected by historic preservation legislation. The > township to which it belongs is famous for horse farms and large > estates. Not at all the kind of place one would expect to find a huge > hippo as a lawn ornament. > > 2. The hippo was brought here as a romantic gesture. A New Jersey > engineer fell in love with a young veterinarian from Missouri. He > knew that she had a fondness for a pair of bronze hippo statues near > St Louis, so he had ca concrete replica cast and hauled the multi-ton > beast across half the country as an inducement for her to marry him > and move out east. I met him when I stopped to take this image. He > was not very happy that I was doing that, but after I chatted him up > for 10 minutes or so, he grudgingly allowed me to proceed (knowing, of > course, that I could always photograph it from the public road). > > Dan > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Christine Aguila > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, I've never seen anything like that on a front lawn. What a hoot! >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel J. Matyola" >> <[email protected]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 10:21 PM >> Subject: PESO: Suburban Hip >> >> >>> Hippo. >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12980418 >>> >>> Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are Welcome. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> -- >>> Dan Matyola >>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > > > -- > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > 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.
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