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October 6th, 2009

Maryland – October 2009 Purple shamrocks in the kitchen window.

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Bug

October 5th, 2009

Maryland – October 2009 A bug crawling on the kitchen window screen.

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Cowboy Hats Are Fun After Many Beers

October 2nd, 2009

Cairo – March 2009 The morning after another party…party’s still going!

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Party? What party?

September 30th, 2009

Cairo – March 2009 This was taken at a St. Patrick’s Day party, and this partygoer was slightly distracted by the bikinis on TV.

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Bottles

September 29th, 2009

Cairo – March 2009 This is a bar in downtown Cairo where they calculate your tab based on the number of empty bottles on your table.

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Khan el-Khalili, Cairo – April 2009 I’m jumping ahead a bit in my catch-up-on-posting-Egypt-photos mission, but this one is for an “iHeartFaces” photo contest. This week’s theme is “blue” (the color) and I think this photo qualifies! Plus I think it is very sweet. They were about to go down a flight of stairs and [...]

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Shalom

September 25th, 2009

Old, new, mistakes, discarded, forgotten, dusty metal objects in a metal shop in the Khan. Khan el-Khalili, Cairo – March 2009

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Killing Ants!

September 23rd, 2009

Armed with a can of Raid! Spraying… Spraying some more… Spraying up high… Hmm…is that all of them? Nope, a few more! That is how you take pictures of people who don’t want their picture taken: around the corner shadows! 29 Palms – September 2009

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Random, probably famous, mosque

September 22nd, 2009

Women can’t go in all mosques, but I could go in this one. I don’t remember the name of it though… Cairo – March 2009

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Sunset

September 20th, 2009

If you can’t fight the power lines, might as well enjoy them… 29 Palms – September 2009

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Flowers

September 18th, 2009

This is a photo of a bouquet of flowers I received over a month ago, and since I couldn’t bring them home on the plane, I left them on the kitchen table, where they remain even now. They dried themselves out very well, no? Normally I don’t do any photo editing, other than removing pesky [...]

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