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Subject: [OM] Re: Danger, danger! Adventure afoot!
From: Tom Albright <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:25:59 -0500
The dangerous, cunning, crafty, good in a gumbo nocturnal flying squirrel?

Walt Wayman wrote:
> I am preparing for a night-time adventure deep into the dark and dangerous 
> forest in an attempt to photograph a creature most don't even know exists and 
> which few who have even seen it have survived to tell about. Nocturnal, with 
> giant, piercing eyes, needle-sharp claws, razor-sharp teeth, faster than the 
> eye can follow, able to leap from tree to tree in a single bound, silent and 
> often unseen until suddenly, out of the corner of one's eye, it is sensed 
> more than seen hurtling in from behind.
>
> I hope to survive this daring undertaking, which may take several nights, and 
> if I do so, I will post a photograph or two, however poor and shaky from 
> fright it or they might be. If I don't make it back, I'm sure my wife will 
> have all my gear on eBay in a week or two, so your generosity would be 
> appreciated.
>
> Here is an example of the sort of gear I have cobbled together today for 
> purposes of this dangerous pursuit: 
>
> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/media/192375/site1116.jpg
>
> If I don't survive and this proves to be my last post, so be it. Remember 
> that I perished in the line of photographic duty.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from 
> the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
> Edward Weston
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