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Subject: [OM] Re: Odd Day Out
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:16:35 -0400
Great shot

John Hermanson
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> From: "GeeBee" <geebee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Wednesday, 01 June, 2005 05:19 PM
> Subject: [OM] Odd Day Out
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>>
>> I'm driving on a back lane when around a bend in the distance I can see
> this
>> chap over the hedge heading my way. My first thought was that he was a
>> little high for a cyclist so I reasoned that he must be on horseback.
>> Nothing unusual in that except that his movement is not consistent with a
>> horse rider. As we close on each other the bend between us disappears and
> I
>> get a good look at him as we pass. Was a time I would have just kept on
>> going but ever mindful of the fact that I need 'fuel' for the web site I
>> turn the car around at the first opportunity and go back, eventually pass
>> him (he was going surprisingly fast), put some distance between us, park
> and
>> then wait for him to approach. I take a shot.
>> http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Odd_day/odd_day_01.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> I resumed my journey and went back to soaking up the rustic splendour 
>> that
>> is Northamptonshire in the month of May. Scenes more in keeping with what
>> one expects to find in the English countryside. Rolling green hills,
>> hedgerows in blossom giving off fine fragrances and giving added peace to
>> the scene our farm animals grazing and lazing in the fields. A herd of
>> cattle, a flock of sheep with this years lambs, already almost as big as
>> their mothers, horses in a paddock, ALPACAS! I suppose they could be
> llamas
>> but I'm guessing these are being bred for their fur not for their spit.
>> http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Odd_day/odd_day_02.htm
>>
>>
>> Sometimes the 'typical' English countryside can turn into Alice in
>> Wonderland before your very eyes. I'm thinking what else does
>> Northamptonshire have to offer by way of bizarre photo opportunities. A
> bird
>> as big as a Buick perhaps?.....
>> .........Yeah right.
>> I move over to the left, the bird follows me. I move over to the right 
>> and
>> again the bird tracks my movements. The wings are fanned and the head
> pivots
>> from the base of neck in a large circle. I am uncertain as to whether the
>> display is to warn me off or because the ostrich fancies me.
>> http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Odd_day/odd_day_03.htm
>>
>>
>> Whatever it is the display gets ever more frantic and noting the look on
> the
>> birds face I decide to leave before the display reaches a climax (no pun
>> intended). I have no wish to be attacked or, perish the thought, worse. 
>> If
> I
>> am surprised to see an ostrich in Northamptonshire imagine the local fox
>> when he sees the worlds' biggest egg. The sheer joy of it. Just before a
>> foot, the size of a catchers' mitt, powered by the worlds' biggest
> drumstick
>> hits him in the side of the head. Strange place the English countryside.
>> http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Odd_day/odd_day_04.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> The whole thing and others here:
>> http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/words_and_pictures.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Graham
>> http://geebeephoto.com
>>
>>
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