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Susan has been posting on a photo blog about her and Mere’s trip to the National Roller Skating event for the last few days: Mere’s been practicing every day at least once, and kept a very busy schedule. Her big event is Thursday night at 9:30 pm Central Daylight Time; you can catch her and [...]
For the last few months, Mere has been crazy busy with stuff to do – endless tons of homework (I’m amazed at how much they hand out to kids these days) along with extensive reading projects from school (she’s managed to get through the complete Harry Potter) and more – choir, band (she’s turning into [...]
Meredith in one of her skating outfits from April, 2010, with a very typical impish expression on her face.
http://bit.ly/6bT2Os (from the Newseum, possibly not good after tonight – front page of today’s Daily Herald) IL_DH (pdf of the page – big center layout of photos of the girls)
The local suburban daily newspaper, the Daily Herald, is reprinting the Newsweek story on the twins with different photos: http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=342760
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1 The Power of Two: http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098 Photo gallery of the kids, etc. The Intro picture is particularly stunning. This has been in the works since spring. Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots. The interviews mostly were around [...]
Nurrrrrrrrr.
The article I’ve been talking about in the recent past is about to come out; more details when it’s actually available.
Monday was Mere’s first day of school in 5th grade: photos after the cut of the series of shots done (mostly by the carved bear at the bottom of our front steps) over the years, in reverse chronological order. Full Flickr set with closeups here.
Set of Flickr photos of Meredith at her softball games, including photos with her cousin Kay and her sister Mer. Twins upon twins: The Gentle twins (good friends of Meredith’s from school who are also on her softball team) and Meredith and Mer at the game. The team saw Mer as their ‘good luck mascot, [...]
Set of photos of Meredith with her dog Dash at home and in the car, July 2009. See Flickr set here.
All-singing, all-dancing bellboys. Never see those in hotels anymore.
Ritz Camera chain in the US likely to liquidate, as people are using them less and less in favor of digital photography which is then uploaded via the Internet to be printed up cheaply elsewhere.
I can deal very well with a President who is a Geography geek (like yours truly).