Starting...
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We're still early in the year, here...
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Venus with the moon...
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Some Kansas City Mardi Gras...
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Around about Union Hill in the early morning...
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Coworkers and such... all serious business here you know.
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Anyway...
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Yes, this whole set is in chronological order...
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Me times three to hurl jests and taunts in your immediate direction...
(and my hand about got frost-bitten when I took off my glove to operate the shutter cable release)
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That same day and same vicinity at nightfall, with the snow now melted...
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Crossroads Dist. - April.
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The KCMO Mounted Police - with a very difficult time getting a passable shot given the low light, horse movement, and the fact that my 5D's ISO will only go up to 3200.
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Stafford KS, Easter weekend - actually not Kansas City at all, other than I went out there to visit some family and happened to also take pictures there too...
- this one could be regarded as more of a catapult than a teeter totter if we wanted to be a bit wrong...
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Cloudy sunrise, Stafford KS and one of its grain silos...
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On the way back to Kansas City, half way there, I stopped in the Flint Hills of Kansas for photos. As it turned out, the only photo I thought came out interesting was this one of my car all sullied with Stafford County mud, owing to the rain combined with dirt roads...
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Couple hours later here, now we're in Merriam KS. Sure looks like suburban retail is where it's at these days doesn't it.
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Back in Kansas City Missouri.
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The April 15th "Tea Party...."
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And now back to matters of agriculture...
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These three friends were all ready for prom later that evening...
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Theater dome....
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A stormy sunrise...
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Scenes from the Kansas City AIDS Walk...
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And more hither and thither...
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Yes, I am aware of the HDR-induced halos, before you go lecturing me...
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Dog of the Red Carpet...
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I'll leave it to your imagination...
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Christen, minding the options desk executively.
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May Day...
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Cinco de Mayo festivities of 2009...
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Later....