Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, No, No, Steve. I won't be on a bike for this. Will take our bikes with
us, but this is a driving tour. While I think I am up to a fairly long bike
tour, I know my wife is not and has no desire to....
Aram
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:26 -0700
From: Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Survivor II - sad story
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On Aug 28, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Aram Langhans wrote:
> Remember a few weeks ago when I posted the photo of the flower in the
> gutter. I called it Survivor.
> Here he/she (most flowers are both male and female) is for another
> look.
> http://tinyurl.com/62c4xm in all her glory. Survivor was doing
> great the
> past few weeks. Weather has been getting cooler, a few rain storms,
> and of
> course the neighbors walking by (or riding bikes in our case) were
> sparing
> some water for him/her.
>
> Well, today survivor met the street sweeper. Needless to say, a
> street
> sweeper is stronger than a poor gutter plant. Survivor was stripped
> of all
> his/her beautiful blossoms. http://tinyurl.com/6locg7 I don't
> think there
> is enough growing season left for him/her to make a comeback. And I
> won't
> be around long enough to find out, as I'll be heading out Tuesday
> for about
> 2 months to drive the Oregon and California coasts, then head back
> through
> Utah to see canyons and arches before heading across Utah, Nevada and
> California to end up in Yosemite for some fall colors. Poor
> survivor will
> have to make it on his/her own. Until then, we will stop on our
> bike ride
> and encourage survivor on. Fight the good fight until winter comes.
it appears the urls are reversed Aram...but a very nice pair...
and what a fantastic bike ride...good luck , godspeed...all that on a
bike,
we will be calling you survivor,
Steve