At the top of the grade, just after old Hamilton Truck Trail, I saw the spooky old trees to the left, just as the sun was going down, and the hills looked old and strange and full of Mystery History, which I love.
I had my camera, so I stopped, parked my Chrysler along Live Oak, walked across the road.
It was too late for my flash to do any good, so I took a few shots, holding the camera as still as possible.
Here's one of those old trees, next to some spooky old grass, on this spooky old night. Ain't much of a photograph, I know, but, I tell you, there's something weird and wonderful about this old tree with its big branches and frizzy, tiny micro-branches, right there where the old stagecoaches used to come and go up in these old hills, one hundred years ago.
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Hey, Chunk. Why no commentary on your boy John Williams and the OC Grand Jury? Seems odd not to see you jump all over this.
I love the poetry of your last paragraph, Roy. Nice. The quality of the photos just enhances the spookiness!
Click on the photos! Check out the detail!
Sweet pictures. I have a bunch of pictures from Blackstar Canyon.
Here, these are fairly recent:
http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/109/l_9a25329e855f47948640bec09c5c02ae.jpg
My friend who chipped his tooth after stating he doesn't believe in freewill:
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/105/l_c579d6d633af44b5b3860e00162e48e0.jpg
http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/73/l_0709f79dc2e44125bb81cdce00491b66.jpg
Oh and I remember you saying something in class about finding humor in torturing kittens. Well, as much as my kitties may hate me for it, I find it highly entertaining as well. Here is my kitten hating my guts:
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/71/l_ef456374fe0c4cd6a2abb189c370fe35.jpg
I have a bunch of my photography open for the public to see on my myspace. I highly doubt that you have one, but let me know if you'd like to see some more of my shtuff. I have a few pictures from my Alaska trip on there. Do you have a site where the public can see your pictures?
What kind of camera do you use?
-L. Curtis
Oh, YEAH, 10:50: seeing the detail actually gave me shivers! Those spectral yucca flowers add a whole 'nother dimension of spookiness to the firs two photos. That one hovering over Chunk's car is like some kind of ghost!
Most excellent.
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