[Leica] Christmas Tree Hunt

[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.
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> 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
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> 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
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> Cut and tied to our sled.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Tree+Hunt-1254.jpg.html
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> no, I did not make my wife drag it the 1/2 mile to the truck.  Just for the picture.
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> 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.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Tree+Hunt-01258-1.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Tree+Hunt-01258-2.jpg.html
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>
> 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.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/15/tr/Christmas+tree-7518.jpg.ht
> ml
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> Merry Christmas to all.
>
> Aram