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Xer, I will not delete pics until you save what you want. You probably know how to save... in fact, that's stupid on my part, but just the same, right click on photo, save as, where you save it, done. I need to make room and have all my free space invested here. Anyone else want to save any, please, but don't keep me waiting. I can't wait too long for anything. |
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| | From:  _Xer | Sent: 11/2/2008 9:52 AM |
| Pikes, thanks for being patient with me. I DO understand about space issues. I have saved through Winter on Elbert so far. If you can extend me a couple more days I'll have the rest too. Unfortunately, I don't often manage to get Internet access on Sundays anymore. So, if you can't wait, you can't. I'll understand. I love to put them on as background with a 5 second roll-over to the next pic. They are very relaxing to look at. Thanks again in any case, my friend. |
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Xer, I will leave them until you say so. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 11/2/2008 5:22 PM |
Pikes, you are too kind, really! I have through Hanging Lake now. I still have most of page 3 and page 4 to save, but am finished with pages 1 & 2 of the mountains. Again, thank you for sharing, and thank you for being patient. Please do not continue limiting your uploads. Other people deserve to see your images too. They are extraordinary, especially for those of us who can never climb!
The lines in the Vicksburg photo are particularly striking. |
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Pikes, the Main Road through Vicksbury to Winfield not adorns my desktop. Thanks a mil.
oc...i see more than a road ... sic the many people and assorted vehicles that once trod that road.... |
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cannot type today ...
the "not" of course should be "now"
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OC, that row of narrow leaf cottonwood through Vickburg always gives me the willys. To me, this entire valley is "haunted." The sunlight there seems dark, stark, and cold. In the boggy areas at night, sometimes will-o-the-wisps can be seen moving around just above the water- I've never actually seen them anywhere else, ever. Only read about them. Just above Winfield, the cemetary contains mostly young children, less than four years old, who died of diseases. Their tombstones sometimes phosphoresce at night, especially in fall when a fall fog rolls in from the west, ahead of a front. I am not one for supertition, but this place is to me, simply creepy. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 11/3/2008 9:07 AM |
Seventy feet deep, and that clear? Bob would love to dive in Hanging Lake. So would I! The drizzle of green down the left side of that last Vestal picture is visually yummy. Then partway down it just opens up into the "$&*#@! willows." So cool! Each image is such an offering I feel guilty for not responding to all individually. Forgive me. It is late and I am tired, but just a couple?
The Vermillion Peak, would look, to me, at home on a Martian polar cap. What a gorgeous piece of nature it is. Teakettle Window speaks for itself. Anything I said would be superfluous. So many of those images do speak for themselves too. They reach right inside my chest and touch me. The Jagged Peaks are just�? �?.Pikes I think I'm running out of adjectives! But, overall, the word I've been seeking from the beginning has finally come to me. Spectacular!
Those images are spectacular. My computer is quite proud of itself to be sporting them as background and screensavers. My computer and I thank you. I have all the mountain pictures you have posted now, but hope you can leave the Hanging Lake pictures up one more day. I sent Bob, our resident diver an e-mail urging him to see the Hanging Lake 2 picture.
As for the Wham Ridge? Hey, doesn't look so tough to me. I could easily scale at least the first 10 feet�?. As for Lizard Head, ain't no way my momma's son would be climbing rotten rock. Nuh uh!
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 11/3/2008 9:07 AM |
i see more than a road ... sic the many people and assorted vehicles that once trod that road.
Understand where your coming from, buddy. |
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Hanging Lake is guarded and protected. I believe most people who actually see it, understand this is a unique place, not to be disturbed. Its clarity and depth are beyond belief. What looks like coral on the bottom, are stalagmitic growths, adorned with coral-like branching minerals of calcium carbonate. One need not dive, for everything in the lake is clearly visible from the surface. That Wham Ridge is 1800 feet high, from base to top. I have more, and will put them up. Ran out of space. I am delighted you find so much joy in them. Thank you for the opportunity. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 11/3/2008 10:15 PM |
| There is a peace in diving as there is in music, climbing, and riding. These are some of the ways we can commune with the universe. Some people require buildings to 'worship.' Some do not. It is probably best though if the area is protected. Not everyone who dives, climbs, or rides are respectful of the environment. It would likely not be long before some inconsiderate immature people came along and spoilt it. Still, I personally would love to dive to the bottom of that Lake. There is no experience quite like diving. |
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I admire and understand the lure of diving. Under water is another world. As close to the feeling of outer space as most will ever get. Wonderful, and simultaneously terrifying. Hanging Lake has never been disturbed in that way, When you see it, you feel an almost sacred silence for it. Mountain summits don't often have that kind of mystique. I never experienced one that did. One Himalayan peak did- Kanchenjunga. When Brown and Evans climbed it in 1955, they left the last five feet untrod, with respect to the Sikkimese reverence for the mountain. I don't know who first violated that custom, but if I were the climber, I would not admit to it. There are some things you simply have to leave alone. |
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