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Subject: [Leica] walking in the woods with my father
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Jul 26 07:21:50 2006
References: <86070F417851ED468663EC5459FC8A050E3602@EXCHANGE.asc.local>

beautifully done Kyle... gorgeous images, and I felt a connection  
with your youth, your father,

and also with my own youth....


a wonderful voyage in time...

lovely stuff man, Steve



On Jul 26, 2006, at 6:56 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> A few weeks ago my father called me to say that the access road to the
> forrest where I spent much of my youth had been blocked off and  
> that in
> a few years the road would be taken over by undergrowth and trees and
> the place, as we knew it, would vanish. He suggested that I come to  
> New
> Jersey and we would walk the entire road one last time. I hadn't been
> there in twenty years, but my mind retained a map of every twist and
> turn in minute detail.
>
> This is the place where my father taught me to light a fire without  
> any
> matches, how to make a compass with a sewing needle, how to find north
> in a swamp on an overcast day, how to build an emergency shelter, and,
> how to use a camera.
>
> We saw mink, snakes, amphibians, a pair of deer, and maybe a little  
> bit
> back in time.
>
> But, if I've done this properly, you shouldn't need to know any of  
> that
> to enjoy these photographs.
>
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/travel/2006/woods/index.html
>
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