Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The week started by watching energetic, pretty girls warm up: http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/3.html Inbetween then and now I've had to edit hundreds of shots for them ... Yesterday my wife and I took a walk in the local forest to burn some fat (doesn't work, but makes me wonder how I would look otherwise). That, and we wanted to see how much damage had been done by the storm a couple of weeks ago. Literally hundreds of trees had been blown down. Some at the roots or some just snapped if the roots didn't give. http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/3alt1.html The forest is a very dangerous place to be now. There is a lot of tensed up energy stored in the bent roots. When the trunks are sawed off there is now longer a counter-weight. Come spring, when the ground thaws, they can unexpectedly shoot back into place, killing anything in their way. Same thing can happen to the workers in the forests now, trying to salvage what timber they can. Daniel