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Upcoming Stuff, Plus That One Picture of My Dog in a Hat Just Because It’s Halloween

October 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Lessons from Wikipedia, Mi Familia, Photography, Travel

It is a busy first weekend in November coming up, and every weekend in November will involve some minor or major traveling.  It is a busy month! Tomorrow I am assisting with a wedding with SilverBox Photographers, which is very exciting because they are EXCELLENT.  I am going to learn so much, but I also know [...]

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Limes

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Lessons from Wikipedia

I did not know that key limes aren’t the same as regular limes.  I thought Key Lime Pie was just the name for a kind of pie, like German chocolate cake.  It turns out that it’s a pie made specifically out of a fruit called a key lime.  A key lime is also known as a Christmas Swingle.  What [...]

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The Long Week That Was

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Lessons from Wikipedia, Travel

Oh, good lord, that was a week.  I am glad that week is over.  Ohhhhhver. *Sigh.* Tracy had been having some weird medical issues over the past couple of months, but they came to a head conveniently while I was out of town in Anaheim last weekend.  She didn’t go to the emergency room until [...]

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Lessons from Wikipedia: I Won’t Shut Up About California

April 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Lessons from Wikipedia

Types of waterfalls!  Who knew?  Yosemite is home to many waterfalls, most of which dry up by mid-summer, so spring is the best time to view them (and take pictures of them). Such as: Bridalveil Falls, which is a hanging valley.  Yosemite Falls is the highest measured waterfall in North America.  (Wikipedia says it’s ”arguably the highest [...]

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Lessons from Wikipedia: Adam-ondi-Ahman

September 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Lessons from Wikipedia

I was vaguely surfing around Wikipedia yesterday, as I do, and discovered something rather stunning: that north Missouri is home to one of the holiest places in the religion of the Latter-day Saints. I am aware that Missouri plays a part in the history of the Latter-day Saints in the U.S.  A fairly bloody part, [...]

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