Comments on: Tricoleur http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2009/04/25/tricoleur/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:18:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dc http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2009/04/25/tricoleur/#comment-1517 dc Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:32:40 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/?p=777#comment-1517 ruth: "they seem to know not to sit on that horribly jagged edge." Don't be so sure---this is what the boat looked like not 5 minutes before the photo above was taken: <center><img src="http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/corms.jpg"></center> I don't know what caused them to suddenly flee the scene. Maybe they're just camera-shy. wordnerd: That's probably even more true now that aluminum frames seem to be the norm. Try leaving a steel bike frame in San Francisco bay for a few years, then show it to your great bike mechanic and ask him if he's still never seen a bike frame destroyed by rust. ruth: “they seem to know not to sit on that horribly jagged edge.” Don’t be so sure—this is what the boat looked like not 5 minutes before the photo above was taken:

I don’t know what caused them to suddenly flee the scene. Maybe they’re just camera-shy.

wordnerd: That’s probably even more true now that aluminum frames seem to be the norm. Try leaving a steel bike frame in San Francisco bay for a few years, then show it to your great bike mechanic and ask him if he’s still never seen a bike frame destroyed by rust.

]]> By: ruth gutmann http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2009/04/25/tricoleur/#comment-1516 ruth gutmann Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:16:21 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/?p=777#comment-1516 It is amazing that the birds and/or ducks near the boat look, despite their environment, all right. In any event they seem to know not to sit on that horribly jagged edge. There is something about rust: the threat of tetanus comes to mind, but the threat I feel just seeing it, long predates my knowledge of its connection to tetanus. You and your camera also caught the color very well. I thought an estuary is a life-giving and sustaining place of nature. It is amazing that the birds and/or ducks near the boat look, despite their environment, all right. In any event they seem to know not to sit on that horribly jagged edge.

There is something about rust: the threat of tetanus comes to mind, but the threat I feel just seeing it, long predates my knowledge of its connection to tetanus. You and your camera also caught the color very well. I thought an estuary is a life-giving and sustaining place of nature.

]]> By: wordnerd http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2009/04/25/tricoleur/#comment-1513 wordnerd Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:44:12 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/?p=777#comment-1513 A great bike mechanic once told me he had never seen a bike frame destroyed by rust. That might not be true for boats... A great bike mechanic once told me he had never seen a bike frame destroyed by rust. That might not be true for boats…

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