Posted by Ed Kiser on September 26, 2005 at 18:37:21 from 64.12.116.6 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Cornwall Cam is back posted by Dan on September 23, 2005 at 08:51:14:
I do a daily check on the
CORNWALLCAM.CO.UK
site, and each day I get this reference to "BIGWIG" which is far from what I was looking for. You say that the Cornwall CAM "IS BACK" but I fail to see any improvement over these past several weeks. What I do not understand is why it has started working again for you, but not for me. At least the
LAKELANDCAM.CO.UK
is still functioning, and providing me with my very necessary daily shot of beauty to add to my growing collection of what is now almost NINE THOUSAND photos. Well, if I cannot get there myself, this is about as good as it can get.
I am grateful for the efforts of those responsible to go out in all weather and give the world their daily offering of great art with a graphic camera as applied to one of the most beautiful parts of this world, a world that, thanks to Ransome, becomes more familiar to me every day.
Cornwall Cam is sorely missed. Wish it worked for me, too.
Ransome painted his word pictures too. One of the best is in the chapter of Swallowdale as the Swallows spend the night at the half-way camp. The description of the sun's going down and the lengthening shadows, with the tops of distant hills still glowing in the sun, to be followed the next morning with the description of the dawn's early light as it finds its way into the crevices on the face of the mountain all become a superbe word picture. Too bad that paragraphs of just descriptions with no dialog are often skipped by quickly as just words with nothing happening, for this means the reader missed out on some of the best parts of understanding the place where all this is happening.
It is in the reading of EVERY word where one gets the true marvels of All Things Ransome.
Ed Kiser, South Florida