Re: What's the record?
Wow, that must be the record!!! Too bad he never made it to Oregon..... :O
:)
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From: "Kathie Morgan" <fishrap@earthlink.net>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 9:36 AM
Subject: What's the record?
> Crew went with me for photo shoots at the firehouse, where he rode the
> bumper; to the lake, where he pretended to be a big fish at the end of
> Davids line; beneath the redwoods, beneath ready-to-harvest apple
> trees, beneath a big dew-outlined spider web, on hardened and cracked
> earth beside a big black spider, in fields of California poppies, under
> broom bushes in full bloom, beside supermarket planters filled with
> flowers. He posed beside the Golden Gate Bridge, which he outshone hands
> down, and at the Golden Gate National Cemetery. I wanted to take him to
> Oregon in March, but David put his foot down, saying that would be
> carrying it just a bit far, didnt I think.
> He was orange and shapely, born in 2001 of a seed from the 747 LaRue. In
> late May he began to soften.
> On June 17, 2002, I took him into town, where a giant sculpture stands
> outside the mall. As I hefted him from the trunk, his blossom end
> spilled tears and a few seeds onto my leg, soaking through the fabric of
> my jeans. I lugged him the two blocks to where the sculpture beckoned
> and placed him lovingly in the hollow of that hand.
> Then I backed away and shot him from several angles. Satisfied that I
> had what I had come for, I turned and walked away, leaving him to spend
> his last day on earth doing what God had put him here to do put a
> smile on the face of all who met him.
> May my last day be no different.
>
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