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Subject: [Leica] IMG: This fountain was no improvement
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:08:24 -0500
References: <0C381F34-1E53-4DFA-A1F1-FB7CCA9B2E4A@acm.org>

I love the blue sky, but don't care for the fountain.  Technically, a 
nice image. :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/23/2015 7:34 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
> A year or so ago, I posted a photo essay on California Avenue, a secondary 
> business district that is about a mile south of downtown Palo Alto.
>
> The city fathers, in their wisdom, have spent a couple of years revamping 
> this street. They imbedded glass chips in the sidewalks to give a festive 
> effect, and until some of it was redone, had some dangerous bits of 
> sharpness protruding. They loused up parking in the area for two years. 
> And, curses, they replaced a lovely spouting fountain, possibly because it 
> was a lure to pranksters who liked to pour blue dye into it.
>
> The replacement is hyped as a unique sculpture, in that it ?works? whether 
> or not water is flowing. I no like!
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000258.jpg.html 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000258.jpg.html>
>
> Please look ?large?.
>
> Herb
>
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>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
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