[Leica] Don's PAW week 13

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Nice presentation, Don. Your azaleas are ahead of the ones up here in 
Tennessee.

Thanks for sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Dory" <don.dory at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 10:18 PM
Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW week 13


> This week will be a little bifurcated.  I had intended to show the people
> and places in a small village (town) within Atlanta.  Like most cities
> Atlanta has engulfed and devoured many smaller villages that used to be 
> way
> out in the country.  The SMSA for Atlanta is I believe 12 counties. 
> Anyway,
> I have been traveling through the fringes of Norcross for several years
> without realizing that there was a wonderful Victorian village just across
> the tracks.  So, first up is a typical house on a street two blocks from 
> the
> mail line.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/week+13/VictorianoldNorcross.jpg.html
>>
>
> Norcross was founded approximately 1803 and really started growing just
> after the war of Northern Aggression about 1870.  The next image is of 
> some
> of the detail of the wood work on these Victorians.  The paint is probably
> wrong as typically the details would have been painted in contrasting
> colors.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/week+13/Victorian.jpg.html
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>
> You don't see any people as they did not cooperate.  There is however a 
> very
> good authentic Irish bar just one street over so if anyone has a day or so
> in Atlanta....
>
> I spent some time this week photographing azalea's.  This time I was using
> an old Canon 135 on a Visoflex III and my M8.  Three images to follow.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/week+13/white135azalea.jpg.html
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> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/week+13/white135azaleagroup.jpg.html
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> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/week+13/pink135azaleagroup.jpg.html
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>
> The flowers this year seem to be very content with life; blossoms are
> numerous and the branches are heavy with them.  However, my oldest plants
> are refusing to come into bloom.  Almost as if they know that a hard 
> freeze
> is predicted for Tuesday.
>
> Live lightly, enjoy the spirits, and remember to tip the bartender well.
>
> -- 
> Don
> don.dory at gmail.com
>
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