Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your Mt. Washington photo stirred memories and feelings. My father climbed Mt. Washington on foot. I never did. But, as a boy with camera, a new driver's license and a Jeep, I visited that mountain and rode that cog rail to the top several times. Ditto my Amherst college days with Smith and Mt. Holyoke dates. Never, on those trips some fifty years ago, did I encounter the pollution revealed in your photo. The air was clear. "Hearing" what's happening to our planet is believing; but "seeing" such evidence is the naked truth. Many years later, calling Manhattan my home for some 33 years, I had the experience of witnessing, from the elevated Kosciuszko Bridge on the BQE, an ever creeping and expanding veil of pollution over NYC. I suppose I comment because I was born and raised on two Dairy Farms owned by my family for generations. I get emotional about such things. Besides, I'm a nature mystic! Thanks for posting this photo. Dr. Leon Pomeroy, Northern Virginia, USA., Re: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/scleroplex/L1770381+cogwheeling+down+mount+ washington.jpg.html :-) bharani