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Art follows Nature, originally uploaded by *Mandana.

This is a beautiful, fanciful photo (as is the architecture)! I just wish there were a larger version of it.

Whitewater Rafting, originally uploaded by aawaken.

What fun to whitewater raft in the Rockies. If you’re like most of us, please remember: since a wetsuit doesn’t cover your ankles, you will get sunburned. Bad.

Mongolian Flickrers jumping, originally uploaded by Ku-G.

I’m overdue for Flickr photo-blogging (photogging?  Fl’ogging), so here’s one that I found exciting!

It was fun to visit Chicago over the weekend.  It was a getaway to celebrate the ending of grad school, which we’d been looking forward to for quite some time.

We snapped some great photos, so check them out!

Our primaries are tomorrow in Pittsburgh and I got a kick out of mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s signage for the campaign. His slogan is “Getting it Done” (sophisticated, no?), so I made a version below that says what he was really thinking.

Luke Ravenstahl

Here’s a cartoon for your edu-tainment. 50 years old, but even more relevant today in light of the “fundamental transformation of the United States of America” promised and now being delivered.

Reflection, originally uploaded by aawaken.

I was sitting at my dining room table doing some work and noticed a neat reflection in the glass tabletop and in the iPhone. I played around with the focus and thought this photo turned out well.

Well, Curious Ian is getting into all sorts of stuff now. One of his latest achievements has been to find, open, AND USE my wife’s lipstick out of her purse. I was surprised to find out that he had an idea of how to use it, as you can tell in the picture. But we’ll refrain from helping him refine his makeup skills.

My son enjoyed visiting the zoo for the first time. Now, he loves looking at our pictures of all the animals! You can see them on my Flickr page by clicking one of the thumbnails to the right.

Halloween, originally uploaded by aawaken.

My son’s Halloween costume was originally a cow. Until I informed my wife that it did look a bit like a cow, except that it was actually supposed to be a dog. So now a dog costume (dalmatian to be specific), we decided that I had to be a fireman so he could be my helper. I called him my little firedog. Our real dog didn’t seem to mind.