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avatar Bird on a rock
November 24, 2009 06:16AM
Ok, I guess no one wants to guess where I'm flying from.
How about this?





Chick-on is looking at you!
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 24, 2009 12:06PM
I guess this is what I get for letting the bird use the computer.
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 24, 2009 12:59PM
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bill-e-g
I guess this is what I get for letting the bird use the computer.

Hunt and peck?
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 28, 2009 03:14PM
You turkeys are pathetic.
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 28, 2009 03:46PM
I see the Yosemite Falls train in the back.
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 28, 2009 05:51PM
The two old dudes at the end are your typical yosemitenews.info abuser.

tongue sticking out smiley

"It is not what we do... it is what people think we do"

"If I'm getting paid... I must be working"
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 28, 2009 03:51PM
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 28, 2009 05:06PM
German (actually, Austrian) Beer Hall Music à la Chicken.
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 28, 2009 05:10PM
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chick-on
Ok, I guess no one wants to guess where I'm flying from.
How about this?



Cincinnati.
(The WKRP helicopter has a very limited range.)
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 29, 2009 07:44AM
Everyone is in hibernation or something...

avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 29, 2009 08:18AM
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bill-e-g
Everyone is in hibernation or something...




The Everglades... I see a flamingo.
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 29, 2009 09:58AM
Last time I looked there was a guy there on a horse, then a lady doing handstands. Is there a waiting line?
avatar Re: Bird on a rock
November 30, 2009 07:19AM
No line this time of year. (although you have to "break the law" to get to the rock nowadays)

Some more pictures with a great write-up are here:

http://www.postcard.org/yosemite.htm

"Arthur Pillsbury never forgot the photo of the Locomobile on Overhanging Rock, and ultimately decided he would stage a similar exhibition for his own camera. On June 10, 1916 Pillsbury broke the driving time record from Oakland to Yosemite in his new Studebaker Six, covering the distance via Big Oak Flat Road in less than nine hours. Three months later, to prove he could pass yet another difficult test, he navigated the Studebaker up to Glacier Point on a sunny mid-September morning. Surveying the approach to Overhanging Rock it was determined that a runway was necessary to pass over several boulders that barred the way. Carpenters working on the Desmond Glacier Point Hotel quickly agreed to erect a trestle, and the car was slowly edged outward. The rock measures roughly seven feet wide and fourteen feet long, and beneath falls blue space for 3240 feet. The driver stopped about a foot from the rock's end. Pillsbury's photo postcard recording the event shows Foster Curry at the wheel and Arthur Pillsbury himself straddling the hood. Pennants reading "Yosemite" and "Studebaker 1916" are attached to the car. Facial expressions on the fourteen people around and in the automobile betray some degree of tension; but seven raised arms, some holding hats, succeed in giving a wave. Two of the men appear to be the helpful carpenters (6)."

Not sure this will work but worth a try:
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