Here is an exquisite, hand-colored, [magic lantern] slide of West Lake Park. [c.1890s?]
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I was going to ask about the light pole that the young lady in yellow is leaning against......oh never mind. (now I see it extends up into the tree)
THIS ONE
detail
My question was going to be about the under-sized globe and the too-thick pole.
*schedules eye appointment*
I also thought the lad, just to the left of the tree, was leaning against a monolithic slab like the one in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
*schedules psychiatric care*
Of course, it's a tree.
........... (or is it? I see a small patch of sky above it)
If it
is a tree, it's much older than any of the other trees in the park.
What do you think odinthor?
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