Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/09

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Subject: [Leica] The Best of Winthrop and Joseph (Part 2)
From: pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)
Date: Sat Aug 9 23:52:44 2008

Back at Wallowa Lake, we went up this cable lift to an 8200-foot high 
mountain:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003716.jpg.html>
To see sights like this:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003739.jpg.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003721.jpg.html>
And read signs like this:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003738.jpg.html
As the Cowardly Lion said, "Put 'em up, put 'em up..." (just a friendly 
little pocket gopher):
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003748.jpg.html>

Later, back down below, somebody drove up in this 1923 Ford:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003806.jpg.html>
Something kind of insect-like about its face:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003813.jpg.html>

My girl, on a hike:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003823.jpg.html>
Property rights are a big deal in conservative Eastern Oregon:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003845.jpg.html>

The local bronze foundries execute works from and for all over the world. 
Start here, 8 pictures:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003863.jpg.html>

The great Wallowa Lake Deer Encounter.  Start here, 16 pictures:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003874.jpg.html>
        Specifically, I'm really happy about this one:
        <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003881.jpg.html>
        "Rrrrrruffles have rrrrrrridges" (old U.S. TV commercial):
        <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003962.jpg.html>
        Everybody's smilin':
        <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1003978.jpg.html>

This bronze is one of the unofficial symbols of Joseph:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1004001.jpg.html
Which led to my irreverent Triple Moon:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1004009.jpg.html>
Another bronze:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1004052.jpg.html>
Our last sunset before heading home, enhanced by smoke from a wildfire in 
Washington:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1004060.jpg.html>
G'night
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/L1004055.jpg.html>

Dat's all, folks!
--Peter