Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Don, This is a heart-warming set of pictures. The spirit of voluntary action that it embodies is one of the most positive features of American society. As for the pictures themselves, they are good but could be better. As someone else mentioned, one gets the feeling that you are an observer at the edge of the action. Since you know the people and they know you, you should have been able to be in the middle of it and getting really close. The good things is that you will be able to go back there, as you mention, so next time: get closer! Kind regards, Nathan Don Dory wrote: > As some of you know I spent most of last week in Kansas City where my > parents had just gotten out of the hospital for a knee replacement(mother) > and pulmonary thrombosis(father). Did they spend time recuperating? Of > course not, it was off to the food kitchen to cook for those less > fortunate. The menu included smoked lamb that my dad had cooked the night > before. > > The first image is preparation, people of this generation believe in > complete meals so salad(mixed greens with added tomatoes and green peppers > for C). > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=582517 > > The second image is a little later when customers are being served. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=582512 > > The third image is from the serving line. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=582519 > > The next image is a broad view of the team work these septuagenarians use to > keep the line moving. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=582521 > > The last image is a broad view toward the end of service. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=582523 > > I work this food kitchen every time I visit my parents. The mix of > customers varies from a retired army colonel who was on the first wave at > D-Day to a down and out prostitute. One of the customers took the time to > teach me how to tell what day of the week any day falls on. The other > interesting note is the mix of people who work with my parents at this > kitchen. They all come from very to extremely well off retirements in > Johnson County: they can afford to buy any ten cars made, yet they still > show up like clockwork to help those less fortunate. Most of the time the > food is fairly exotic(buffalo, elk, pheasant, goose), one family donates the > meat from corporate hunts led to generate new business for an international > engineering firm. > > Don Dory > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html