Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's better here ... but not because we're "goodie-goodie" and effective environmentalists ... but because trees are a cash-crop in Sweden. And it takes an awful lot of years to replace them if you get it botched up. There are, in other words, financial motivations to keep the environment clean. My wife insists the next time we go over the the states that we make a grand tour through the south. (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana). I suppose we'd pass through this area if we drove down the east coast. Daniel On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Kenneth Frazier wrote: > > Hope it looks better there now. > > > > Daniel > > I took my two grandchildren (age 9 and 4 at the time) on a "grand tour" > of the South in the summer of 2003. We drove the Parkway and stopped at > that "highest elevation" sign. My granddaughter, who's very conscious > of her environment, wanted to know what had happened to all the trees. > > She was very upset and took pictures with her "disposable" camera I had > bought her. She had them developed and took them in for her "what I did > over the summer" project when school began that year. > > For those of us who grew up in the Smokies, these scenes are > distressing. > > Ken Frazier > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >