Posted on Oct 29, 2011 4:51 PMA Wondrous Hole
I have always been possessed of a curiousity which knows no bounds. If there is a hole in the ground, I will poke a stick in it to find out what is in that hole, how deep it is, where it goes & what made it. Two of my dear friends have called me a "stick poker" & they are correct. I freely admit it.
I am forever saying, "I wonder......."
One of the big oaks on the property has a huge hole in it about 3' up the trunk. I kept wondering what was in there if anything & how far the hole goes etc.... But there's NO WAY I was going to stick my head in there! And for once in my life I wasn't about to poke a stick down the hole either. I kept wishing for one of those cameras on a tube like the doctors use so I could lower it in there & take a look around. It's been bugging me & bugging me. I could hear that darn hole calling to me every time we were there. So I decided to take a shot & see if the camera could manage to reveal anything.
Approaching the hole. It's a lot bigger than it looks in the photo. Say, 2'w. x 3'h.
Now I'm holding the camera outside the opening & shooting toward the rear where you can see a hole going back farther in the hole.
You can see I'm still holding the camera outside the hole by a good bit. I'm terrified if my hand crosses the threshold some monster is going to jump up & bite me!
Now, I can't see these photos on the camera screen --- all that shows is pretty much black -- so I have no idea what's in there or if I'm getting anything on pixels. I'm just shooting wild. I've got my hand just at the edge now & trying to angle into the deep dark unknown.
I finally work up enough chutzpuh to actually hold the camera over the hole (sort of) as much as I dared, still waiting for fangs to sink into my hand.
I didn't know I had gotten anything other than black blackness until I got home & loaded the photos on the computer. I'm blown away by the clarity & detail. So now I know what's in the big hole.... well, part of it anyway. Now I'm dying to know what's in those deeper, darker, farther holes inside the hole.
