Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Daniel hates my favorite place to go (of course)
Daniel and I went to the wetlands the other night at sundown. He brought the new Dune book to read. I brought some of my cameras.
It’s one of my favorite places to go. When there’s not a lot of people there, especially. I just find it very serene.
Daniel hated the noise of the traffic. It’s right along the Pacific Coast Hwy, and where we were, you could hear it really loudly.
That’s a picture of one of my cameras, this one, in fact. I set it on a bench, pointed it toward Daniel, and then stood on the bench and took a picture from above it. It’s one of those cameras where you look down into the viewfinder from above. Pretty cool, huh?
The trails run pretty close to the edge of the water, and apparently, the ground is crumbling away in spots. I leaned against the fence railing—actually, I must have sat on it, because it fell off, and I landed on my back on the other side of the fence. Boy did I feel stupid. I wish I’d had a picture of it though! I was lucky the edge of the water was another 5 feet beyond where I landed.
(Don’t trust the fence railing)
What you’re missing from these pictures is the smell. Especially down in this area:
A lot of garbage gets washed out from drainage ditches and into the wetlands. It’s really gross. People were fishing, though, and we saw fish jumping out of the water.
That camera on the bench shot is really cool.
You’re story about pieces of the ledge crumbling reminded me of my great uncle. He got vertigo (I think that’s the right word) while standing on a ledge at Klamath Falls Oregon and fell 250 feet, landing in a tree. Somehow he survived and even walked again. It took rescuers around 7 hours to get to him.
I wondered how much of the story had been exaggerated to me as a kid, but then I found a newspaper article with the same details.
I’m glad you didn’t fall in the water.
Yeah, I may have caught some disease!
That’s crazy about your uncle!
you know there are people that buy up old cameras to just shoot through their viewfinders. i find it rather, well, a waste of a good camera.
what is the dune book daniel is reading. is it some new sequel written by someone other than frank herbert?
That does seem lame!
Frank Herbert’s son has written some sequels based on his father’s notes of what he’d planned. This book is the very last of the series. It just came out.
Frank Herbert is the only fiction Daniel’s read.