On 17 December 2014 at 06:40, Mike Lazzari <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Thanks for the kind words. I think this lens will pair nicely with the
> 9-18. Too bad they aren't weather sealed. The 12-50 may still go with me
> into the mountains.
>
> Nice. Very nice. Beautiful actually. And I would very much like to live in
>> that lighthouse(?) building on the point.
>>
> I don't think you would actually. A little small and no windows... A
> fixer-upper. :)
>
> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/WalkDogs/Ap12/
> CattlePtGus6824_SL.jpg>
>
> A few of the other lighthouses do have an adjacent caretaker's house.
> They are all automated so no one is needed to trim the wick. They even
> removed the diaphone a few years back :( Most have been turned over to
> State Parks. The one near us is occupied by the park ranger.
It looks the perfect size and I'm not averse to fixing up. If I was a
golem then the paper in my mouth would say "Lighthouse keeper" and my feet
of clay would be trudging a "road not taken" (and I probably wouldn't be
mixing metaphors and allusions on an online photography forum). :)
Cheers,
Marc
Ingebirah, Oz
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