Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jon Streeter: Your mention of Austin's Barton Springs plunged me into reminiscing about my student days at UT Austin. Thanks for the memories! I photographed my date posing on St. Augustine Carpet Grass, under Live Oak trees, bordering this magnificent spring with 68oF water year round! Back then, I used the <http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rj a&ved=0CDAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kenrockwell.com%2Fmamiya%2F1000-dtl.htm &ei=KGW9UNL5C4rk0QGn7IHwCQ&usg=AFQjCNFHGbigeVdWXTVryZCPuediIvWbRw&sig2=jkvso eKlWxmk4EPWUOGudQ> Mamiya/Sekor 1000 DTL camera loaded with Kodachrome! Dr. Leon Pomeroy, Northern Virginia, USA "Looks like it would take some courage to go swimming there. I lived briefly away from southern California twice in the last roughly 50 years, in Texas when I was in the Army. There's a fabulous place to go swimming in Austin called Barton Springs, a warm, slow-flowing section of a spring with grassy banks instead of sand. The other place was Honolulu. Hawaii, to me, was like paradise. The ocean was warm enough to swim in at night." Jon Streeter