For the past 70 years, California’s Calaveras County has been holding a frog-jumping contest at its country fair near the old gold mining town of Angels Camp. (The contest was inspired by Mark Twain’s 1865 tall tale of a jumping frog, which was written in Angels Camp.) When we arrived in Angels Camp the week before the 2008 contest, its main street was already decorated with clothing likely to be worn by gold miners. There is a double incongruity at work in this image – using underwear as decoration is an unusual practice. And stiff winds made the long Johns in this image appear to come to life and race each other while dangling on a wire just above the town’s old mercantile exchange. (A week later, we once again passed through Angels Camp, only there was no wind blowing, and the long Johns hung limply over the street.)