[Leica] Christmas Tree Hunt

[leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)]

Flexible Flyer.  Bought it for my wife when we were first married in 1974.  
She had never seen much snow growing up in Los Angeles area. A shock moving 
to rural Eastern Washington (Odessa).  

Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired  Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
 
?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
would ever have dared dream.?   James D. Watson

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Burleson [mailto:leica at jayburleson.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 2:44 PM
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Christmas Tree Hunt

Nice sled - I've a couple of old ones similar to those stashed in the garage 
- purchased by my parents in the early 50's.

Jay

On 12/7/2015 8:05 AM, Aram Langhans wrote:
> It has been 4 years since we had any snow in the mountains after 
> Thanksgiving, when we go up and get our tree.  $5 for the permit, then off 
> to the woods to find the perfect tree.
>
> It had just snowed a few days before, and the temp has remained in the 
> teens or mid twenties, so it was still on the trees.  Makes for a pretty 
> hike, but harder t find the perfect tree because they all look good.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Tree+Hunt-1253.jpg.html
>
> Here is the one we finally decided on.  There were two small trees growing 
> up through it at the base, so it was hard to decide.  We were not sure 
> what it would look like sans those trees.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Tree+Hunt-1252.jpg.html
>
> Cut and tied to our sled.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Tree+Hunt-1254.jpg.html
>
> no, I did not make my wife drag it the 1/2 mile to the truck.  Just for 
> the picture.
>
> Had time to get in a little fun after the tree was secured.  these are 
> frames captured from a video my wife took of me.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Tree+Hunt-01258-1.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Tree+Hunt-01258-2.jpg.html
>
>
> After a week in the garage for the residual snow to melt off it and time 
> for it to get a good drink of water, we put it up a few days ago.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Christmas+tree-7518.jpg.ht
> ml
>
> Merry Christmas to all.
>
> Aram