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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Men in Nature


Our theme for today is men in nature, and we start with Al Parker by an unknown photographer.

 

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  1. This is a new Al Parker photo for me and I really like it! Thanks for posting it!

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    1. New photo for me, also, and I thought I had seen everything Parker did. Great find.

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  2. In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
    On the trail of the lonesome pine
    In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine
    Where he carved his name and I carved mine
    Oh, Al, like the mountains I’m blue
    Like the pine I am lonesome for you
    In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
    On the trail of the lonesome pine

    After The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Ballard MacDonald (1913)

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    1. The Blue Ridge Mountains are the eternal heartland of the Scots in American, so it's appropriate that a MacDonald wrote the original poem. My own family spent a century there before moving west to Texas.

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  3. Other than the obvious attributes of this photo, interesting that Al is leaning at the same angle as the trees. One of the elements that makes this photo work.

    SB Dan

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    1. You have a keen eye, Dan, and your comment is spot on.

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  4. The most perfect man ever born!

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