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* Devil's Tower 2 *

    I have an Aunt that lives about ten miles from the Devil's Tower National
Monument in the Northeast corner of Wyoming.
    I had spent some time with her when I was younger.
    The Devil's Tower is a single, igneous rock formation that protrudes
from the ground and can be seen for hundreds of miles all around.
    Here in this picture, while walking around the perimeter trail, I
decided to climb up part of the rock to get a view and got a little carried
away and went up a little too far. I got this picture with one hand while
clinging on to a rock with the other.

    This picture was taken back in 1992 when I had bought my first Sony
Mavica camera. The Mavica MVC-C1. This was not a digital camera but it took
up to 50 analog video pictures on one, very small, 2.5" floppy disk.
    The images could then be played onto a TV or VCR where I recorded them
all on to a tape and was able to erase and reuse the $10 each disks.
Unfortunately, even though the images looked very clear on TV they were
still very poor quality because as many of you  know, a standard TV signal
has very low resolution.