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Daughter sits at her art table, with a block model. Today’s assignment was to create the block model, then render it on paper. On the table is another marker-on-paper project.

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Daughter has started her summer art camp, and brought home her first work: a charcoal rendering of a turtle.

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Son shows off his somersault in this video I posted to YouTube.

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Yet another rainy Sunday finds us taking a trip to a nearby Museum of Science. Actually, Son had a birthday party to go to, so Daughter and I went to the museum together.

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Another photo in use, apparently in Edmonton, Alberta:

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Just for fun I compiled a list of cameras that I have used to take photos in my iStock portfolio. It’s quite a list, due mainly to my habit of economizing by borrowing cameras from places that I have worked. In college, I was photo editor of the yearbook, so I used their (quite top-notch) [...]

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The wonders of the Internet … a month or two ago, a friendly iStock member let me know that he had seen my images in use on a billboard outside a school in a small town in Ontario. I found an online message board for that town, and asked for help getting a photo of [...]

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Temperature has gotten up into the 80′s lately, so it’s time for another pool photo. Besides, it’s so nice when they pose together.

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For Father’s Day, the family took me for a lovely hike at World’s End reservation. It was a coastal hike, and I kind of expected it to be like the coastal hikes I so loved in Maine: rocky, breezy, utterly beautiful. However, I was surprised to find that it was more grassy than anything, and [...]

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Daughter celebrated her 7th birthday yesterday with 7 of her closest friends. Wife went all-out in conceiving and hosting an old-fashioned at-home party with a “Hawaiian” theme. She made a fantastic cake with a beach scene, including sea, shore, and sunbather. She came up with creative games such as “pin the palm tree on Hawaii”. [...]

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