The Dam Camel
Monday, August 06, 2007
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The Camel
The camel has a single hump;
The dromedary, two;
Or else the other way around.
I'm never sure. Are you?
Primrose Path, 1935
Odgen Nash
Not far from a lake, at Buchanan Dam in the Texas Hill Country, where my friend Howard Houston lives with his wife Lynne and dog Yogi we met up with this out of context animal.
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Before the making of the Isthmus of Panama, camels roamed in an early North America. Thus I have found out that the presence of the camel is not all that out of context.
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When North America was joined to South America the camels drifted south and evolved into llamas, guanacos, alpacas and vicuñas.
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While riding a calesa, a horse driven buggy in Mérida, Rosemary asked me for the Spanish equivalent of a highway lane divider. It immediately made me think of the Texan camel as the word in Spanish, camellón, is intimately related to the animal.