Making Lemonade
I've always wondered about the expression 'making lemonade from lemons'...I mean what else are you gonna do with lemons??
The phrase popped into my head today as I was driving through the country to drop some stuff off at my father-in-law's shop. His place is in St. Jacobs which is sort of the center of Mennonites in Ontario. It's still a place where there's a lane on the roads for a horse and buggy. In fact there was a horse and buggy chugging along the Sawmill Road just as I passed this sight as well. These guys had mini-parachutes and were skiing as the wind pulled them along.
When you stop to think about it, here we were, me in my combustion engine, the Mennonite farmer with his horse powered carriage, and these guys on wind powered ski...the evolution of transportation in one hundred yards of each other. Had I been more attuned to what was happening I'd have snapped the van AND the carriage in this shot as well...alas I'm a bit slow on the uptake.
But these guys weren't. There was a pretty fierce wind going today so these cats were moving at a fair rate of speed.
The phrase popped into my head today as I was driving through the country to drop some stuff off at my father-in-law's shop. His place is in St. Jacobs which is sort of the center of Mennonites in Ontario. It's still a place where there's a lane on the roads for a horse and buggy. In fact there was a horse and buggy chugging along the Sawmill Road just as I passed this sight as well. These guys had mini-parachutes and were skiing as the wind pulled them along.
When you stop to think about it, here we were, me in my combustion engine, the Mennonite farmer with his horse powered carriage, and these guys on wind powered ski...the evolution of transportation in one hundred yards of each other. Had I been more attuned to what was happening I'd have snapped the van AND the carriage in this shot as well...alas I'm a bit slow on the uptake.
But these guys weren't. There was a pretty fierce wind going today so these cats were moving at a fair rate of speed.
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2 Comments:
Incredible shot! And great thought.
So if you're feeling brave (I'm looking for a brave person), apparently this is very popular to do in Traverse City on a water ski. What do you think? We give this a go in July? We will have to triple tie our swim trunks.
Sure...I'm up for it...nearly drowning is something I've never really experienced!!!!
Me on water skis...haven't done that in 20 years...oof
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