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Subject: [Leica] Canadian calmness?
From: hlritter at twc.com (Howard L Ritter Jr)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 14:39:43 -0400
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Sonny?

Let?s ask the natives! Dr Ted?comments? ?

?howard


> On Jun 5, 2017, at 8:42 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Howard,
> 
> He is Canadian.  We can't attempt to understand the workings of that
> mind.    ;-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> 1714
> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
> 
> USA
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 7:36 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> What strikes me as most remarkable about this scene is the utter lack of
>> curiosity and wonder manifested by a man who considers it more important 
>> to
>> mow his lawn (!) ? RIGHT NOW! ? than to pause for a couple of minutes for
>> the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to safely (in his estimation) witness 
>> at
>> close hand and marvel at one of Nature?s most fantastic, primordial and
>> dramatic spectacles. I keep trying to picture myself in his position, 
>> doing
>> what he?s doing, but I always end up at the fence, spellbound.
>> 
>> Incredible.
>> 
>> Or was the photo staged by the man and his wife as a bit of wry visual
>> humor, and as soon as she?d made the photo, they were both glued to the
>> fence, agog?
>> 
>> ?howard
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 5, 2017, at 1:30 AM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at 
>>> gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is this an example of Canadian calmness, or someone bucking for a Darwin
>> Award?
>>> <http://www.timescolonist.com/man-who-mowed-lawn-with-
>> tornado-behind-him-says-he-was-keeping-an-eye-on-it-1.20394290>
>>> 
>>> For a moment, I thought, "I wish I'd taken it."  But on second thought,
>> no.
>>> 
>>> :-)
>>> --Peter
>>> 
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