[Leica] IMG: Ira's PAW - Week 6

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

He's retired now, right??

Please...

Ric


On Feb 17, 2007, at 12:05 PM, ISILVERMN@aol.com wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Feb 200706:02:58 +100, Alastair Firkin wrote, "The cloud  
> seems  to
> rise with menace over the trees:..."
>
> Alastair,
>
> Thank you for looking and commenting.
>
> As I was positioning myself to capture this image, I was thinking of a
> former neighbor of mine, who I'll call John (not his real name).   
> John  was a
> senior captain with American Airlines flying 747's between Los  
> Angeles and
> Honolulu, with all the discipline and sense of responsibility that  
> came with  that
> position.  However, he had a few interesting quirks.
>
> First, he believed, with absolute conviction, that Star Trek (the  
> original
> TV series) was true history, as conveyed to Gene Roddenberry when  
> he was
> visited  by Vulcans.  Second, he insisted with equal conviction,  
> that we were
> constantly being monitored by shape-shifting UFOs, which we saw as  
> the  uniform and
> fast moving clouds that appear over the Mojave Desert.  I was   
> generally able
> to accept this with good humor, except when he insisted on  playing  
> tape
> cassettes with the sounds of warp-drive on long car trips.
>
> So, if I managed to capture some of the tension in a cloud that  
> some may  see
> as a UFO, then I've succeeded.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ira Silverman
> Irvine, CA
>
>
>
>
>
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