Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/14

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Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW 23 Kudzu in the "new" South
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:24:58 -0400

After admiring Graham's images of pastoral England for about a year, I
thought I would start a weekly posting showing the  real southern US, no
slick glossy "Southern Living" or depressing Robert Frank: just images of
the Faulkneresque dichotomies that hit us every day.

This first week brings to "Buckhead" a part of Atlanta.  Situated between a
Grand Hyatt and the "Financial Center" is a lot  In most places there would
be an old building, a parking lot, or some other use for the space until
other things happen.  Well, in the southern US, kudzu takes over.  This
wonderful African import covers everything in its path, killing whatever is
in it's way.  Cultivation doesn't kill it, repeated applications of
herbicides doesn't kill it, goats can't even keep up with it.  Today brings
us  the unwanted thought that next on the menu might be the skyscrapers.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1555010

Comments always welcome.

Don
dorysrus@mindspirng.com

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