Tuesday, November 27, 2012

About This Batch of Pictures...

Frankly, Gentle Readers, I'm disappointed by this batch of pictures. Although digital cameras have been on our wish lists since this web site was created, nobody out there has sent us any. In order to add any visual quality to this web site at all, we have to depend on Morguefile or on e-friend Victoria Cooley.

Tori is related to Oliver's Humans, one of whom sweetly suggested to Gena Greene that last week would be a good time to take a lot of sweaters into Oliver's (the antique furniture store in historic downtown Gate City, Virginia) and have them photographed. The idea was more professional-quality images of all the sweaters with a backdrop of all the charmingly decorated period furniture collections in Oliver's store.

Well...Tori had done a good bit of the work of arranging all those furniture collections, but she was also studying for tests, and had lots of other images taking up memory on her camera-phone, waiting to be sent here and there...and it shows. All the armchairs, tables, shelves, beds, quilts, racks, stands, and sofas in the store, and every single photo shows the knitted piece draped over the same armchair.

I had hoped to give youall a real virtual tour of the Jackson Street stores, with all the clever little craft booths and antique Christmas decorations; ideally, enough views inside enough stores to attract some of those Tennessee readers to Gate City during the shopping season. Instead, as of today what you're getting is an inside view into the frustration of poverty-in-America. I'm not hungry (today), but I can't afford to take the photos I wanted to post here, and I can't afford to make it worth Tori's time to put off studying and take pictures for us. I'm sorry. The computer is showing that several readers are interested in the shopping attractions of Gate City and Kingsport; I wish I could do more for you.

If anyone out there can spare a digital camera, please e-mail salolianigodagewi@yahoo.com.

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