Kai and Chester at Kaiser

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I have a new camera today, purchased with tax refund dollars. Here’s a tryout picture, taken on our (almost) daily walk down to the Kaiser hospital five blocks away.

The camera is a Panasonic DMC-ZS7.

If you’re seeing strange rainbow colors on Kai’s fur, it’s not the camera. It must be the program I used to re-sample the photo for the Web. Guess I’ll be looking for a different program.

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You should have seen the one that got away

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World’s largest pelican, Pelican Rapids, MN (1987?)

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Would you buy a used car from this man?

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Newport, 1959

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Thy sea is so great, and my boat is so … wait, where’s my boat?

Mark_nauset

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This one’s for Ruth

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We were in the gift shop in Siena cathedral during our trip to Italy in 1995, and I was browsing the art prints, when I suddenly felt a weight on my shoulder. The resident cat had climbed up my back without an invitation. I moved it to my front and held it for a long time. As I recall, it showed no inclination to leave on its own.

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Someone get me out of this wool suit!

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Gotta love the pom-poms!

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Newport, 1959?

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Consider this your warning: the rest of you will not be spared.

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Please stop… I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

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Jiminy Cricket

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“To Philip, with thanks, for a job well done. Mrs. Hussey”

“May 21, 1958”

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