[Leica] Leaning Tree

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

I went to summer camp in Kentucky, that was back in '65, and we'd have an 
outhouse, well two in fact, one for the boys and one for the girls, with a 
long wooden board that had about a dozen holes - drops - ,  there were no 
walls, just a roof. Lots of fun, when we'd queue up generally after dinner 
and waited for a seat ... There were piles of the local newspaper, you can 
guess for what!I was a member of the camp staff then, so the problem for 
most of us was waiting for the dark to avoid sitting there amidst the joyful 
chatter  ... and the rest!Jean-Michel
 > From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 07:49:45 -0600
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leaning Tree
> 
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> wrote:
> > Yet another really nice image Chris that seems to gel together very 
> > well. It begs the question of who you would want to share the outhouse 
> > with. There are extremely few who I would care to!
> 
> 
> Two holers were invented as a place two women could get out of the
> weather to gossip out of earshot of others.
> 
> Also, the holes are usually of two sizes, one to accommodate  (nice
> word, huh?)  children and smaller women.   Some outhouses have three
> holes of various sizes.
> 
> Love this quote:
> 
> Believe me, you don't want to experience the terror of being a
> 5-year-old using an outhouse with only one drop that is 6 sizes too
> big for your scrawny chicken ass. My father, a carpenter by trade,
> made me a small wooden booster for it, but I still had this fear. It's
> not the same fear of falling into the ceramic bowl where you make a
> little splash. In the outhouse, there is a cold stench under those
> buns emanating from unwholesome darkness. You just don't know what's
> down there, only that it is very bad. We also had an owl living in
> there, which made going after dark all the more unnerving. Those were
> days of adventure, let me tell you.
> posted by mrmojoflying
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > On 9 Feb 2012, at 05:26, Chris Crawford wrote:
> >
> >> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?prodId=939&category=4
> >>
> >> Another photo from the farm I photographed a few days ago.
> >>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> 
> USA
> 
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