On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:05:01PM -0700, Rick Womer scripsit: > The Uffington White Horse is a figure dug into a chalk hillside in > Oxfordshire about 3000 years ago, for reasons unknown. A curious feature is > that the only complete view is from the air. We hiked up there last weekend, > on a wet and blustery morning, with my niece and her husband. > > The flat-topped hill to the left is where (legend has it) St. George slew the > dragon. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9329132&size=lg > > (K10D, DA 16-45)
“Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass. Before the gods that made the gods Had drunk at dawn their fill, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was hoary on the hill." One of the very cool things about this list is that people keep posting pictures of things I've heard of but which are matters of distant legend. (The White Horse, the Southern Hemisphere... :) I'm with Cotty on the presence of the individual in the blue jacket, but there's a distant sort of oomph in it anyway. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
