Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Don: Yes, some 25 years ago I rode the Southern Railway's Crescent streamliner from New York to Atlanta and couldn't believe how the kudzu had already taken over. Everything along the right-of-way from the Carolinas south was covered in a blanket of the stuff. Seth LaK 9 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 9:24 PM Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW 23 Kudzu in the "new" South > 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html