[Leica] IMG: Christmas Elves

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Hi, Ted -

Great story, as usual!!  I am so looking forward to getting your book which
I have had on order since it came out.  I plan to bring it to NYC in April
for you to sign.

I hate the cold!!  We lived in the suburbs of Chicago for two years (in
other words, I was held hostage in Chicago for two years).  We took up
cross-country skiing just to be able to get out of the house.  One border
of our farm was a forest reserve and we could ski through it to a bar where
they had great schnapps!  That's the only way I made it through our exile
in the frozen North.  Never again will I live where the snow has to be
shoveled.  You may have noticed that most of my photography takes place in
the lands of eternal springtime.  There's a reason for that ;-)

Tina


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:15 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Tina Manley OFFERED:
>
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Christmas Elves
>
>
>  My grandkids, Sophie, Sadie, and Bennett - ready for Christmas:
>> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/153575703/original
>>
>> They will be in Chicago this Christmas with their other grandparents so we
>> are practicing early ;-)<<<<<
>>
>
> HiTina,
>
> Beautiful grandchildren and colourful outfits! :-) In Chicago for
> Christmas? If they live in your neck of the woods as their regular home
> turf? Being in Chicago for Christmas could be a major eye opener if they
> have a huge snowfall?
>
> If that's the case the children may never want to visit Chicago ever again
> at Christmas nor any month when tons of snow fall and it's freezing cold!?
> :-)
>
> Since I moved out here to Victoria very rarely having snow during the
> winter or very cold? I avoid returning to the Eastern parts of Canada
> during winter! I figure I did my "FREEZING COLD -- SNOW" duties over the
> years at my birth home of Toronto and move to Ottawa where they have the
> longest skating rink in the world on the Rideau Canal. It didn't make any
> difference for me as I stopped ice-skating one year after skating on a
> farmer's pond and went through thin ice! :-(
>
> One might call it a "chilling experience!" :-)
>
> Then the many high Arctic assignments shooting at minus 60 below. Or out
> with the Eastern Arctic Inuit seal hunters while riding on  an open "sled
> made from whale bone and wood.." And pulled by a dozen or so sled dogs.
>
> Great ride unless you fall asleep while riding along in the darkness of
> the twilight-zone and get dumped off in the dark. left hollering yer head
> off for the hunter to turn around and come back for you.
>
> Never had a hunter who was a happy camper having to turn his team around,
> they don't do that on a dime! A great big large circle then find you on the
> ice of Frobisher Bay hoping the ice doesn't break through while you're
> waiting and yelling for the sled & hunter to "save you?" ;-) from a certain
> death if he doesn't!
>
> Just another assignment of adventure! :-)  Lot's of stories like this in
> the new biography!
>
> The only place I enjoy snow?  On Christmas cards! :-)
>
> cheers,
> ted :-)
>
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