Day 060/365 3.19.2010 – Dare to be Different

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I have been a bit under the weather since Tuesday. As a result, my last four 365 photos were taken on my property. Today’s photo comes from the front garden. I am not particularly fond of the composition but I do like the image of one lone yellow flower springing up from a field of homogeneous purple.

My entire life I have felt like this flower. Different.

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Day 059/365 3.18.2010 – Waterfall

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I spent most of the day today lying around making my way through my email inbox as well as a box of Puffs Plus. As a result, I didn’t have much of a chance to take photos. I did, however, have to let the dog out back several times and took the opportunity to shoot the mini-waterfall in my back yard pond.

Enjoy.

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Day 058/365 3.17.2010 – Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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I tried hard to get an interesting picture with a predominance of green in keeping with St. Patty’s Day tradition. I hope this will suffice. It is the decaying body of a garden humming bird ornament.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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Day 057/365 3.16.2010 – Degeneration & Regeneration

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This planter is most definitely on the decline but the life on, in and around it is making it’s annual comeback.

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Day 056/365 3.15.2010 – Lounge Lights

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It was an Abdul’s Shawarma day again so I took my camera along with me for the trip to Crystal Mall. It is a large mainly-Chinese but entirely East Asian mall reminiscent of something one would find in the winding streets of Hong Kong. As a result, you never know what you will find there. Today I was taken by this string of groovy lights hanging in a little bubble tea shop.

I kindly asked the proprietors if I could photograph their lights and then proceeded to climb up on a stool and snap this picture. Trust me, they thought I was crazy!

Day 055/365 3.14.2010 – Wubba

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We have had Kira for five weeks as of today. That makes her 13 weeks old and she is already in love with her Wubba. Gabby and I took her to the dog park today and played fetch up until another dog arrived, at which point Kira cowered in fear between my legs.

LOL

She is so cute.

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Day 054/365 3.13.2010 – Memoriam

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Apologies as I am once again a day late posting this 365 photo.

This is the flag that was presented to my grandmother (which in turn was given to me) by the honor guards at his funeral last year. I can’t say how proud I am of my country for the program, “Honoring Those Who Served”, that gave my him a full military funeral.

Tonight, the HBO mini-series The Pacific will air it’s first episode and I will be watching with the knowledge that every day we are losing roughy 1,100 WWII veterans like my grandfather. Let’s never forget their service.

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Day 053/365 3.12.2010 – Real Jelly Belly’s

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I took the afternoon off work and spent a couple hours at the Vancouver Aquarium with my wife, daughter and mother on her last day in town. Honestly, I could visit here every week and not get tired of it. Now I know it is highly likely that every Vancouverite with a Flickr stream has some variation of this photo but I just could not resist. This Jelly Fish tank is stunning. I kid you not, this is EXACTLY how it looks in person.

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Day 052/365 3.11.2010 – Unexpected Snow

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Ok, Vancouver just finished hosting the 2010 WINTER Olympics with average temperatures of 55 degrees F and absolutely no sign of snow. Two weeks later and I wake up to this. As you can see, the water plants in my pond are in full spring growth mode so I am pretty sure they woke up this morning thinking “WTF?” as well as “hey I am a plant, why am I thinking at all?”

Anyway, what you see is what you get. This snow was gone by mid-day and it is now just wet and rainy.

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While it is commendable that Morrissey (not the cool singing one) corrected two blatant errors the BradBlog earlier busted him on, he made a third error which persists.

As you can see, Morrissey accepts as fact that the criminal defendant – Maria Miles – committed fraud. Given the ease of proving the allegations against Miles, it would indeed be bizarre if her being a fraud isn’t borne out.

Yet, in the same post, he takes quotes from the fraudulent Miles, not verified by anyone else, and accepts them as fact. Morrissey block qoutes a passage in which Agent Thelen (the law enforcement officer who swears out the criminal complaint) recounts statements from Miles alleging a sexual relationship between two ACORN employees (Williams & Robinson) and days in which Robinson then simply hung out but got paid on Williams’ okay.

Morrissey transforms Miles’ claim from allegation to fact when he says: “Charming. What a splendid work environment! No wonder James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles found ACORN staffers to be so helpful at promoting prostitution rings.”

This would be like writing a piece stating as fact that Ben Rothlisberger committed sexual assault solely on the complainants say so. In fact, what Morrissey does is worse because he admits the person who’s allegations he uses to smear ACORN is a fraud whereas we still don’t know anything about Big Ben’s accuser.

The bigger question that someone as astute as Morrissey should be asking is why Agent Thelen included these wholly gratuitous allegations in the first place. They are not material to the criminal complaint against either Miles or Clancy. The only reason I can think of is that the allegations were included to create a salaciousness to his report so as to secure the kind of coverage Morrissey then supplies. It betrays a bias by Agent Thelen against ACORN that is unbefitting of a supposedly objective law enforcement officer.

The other question is how much money was spent on this “task force” that then only came up with these five minimal violations which are really gimmees?

I’ve posted this here because Hot Air is a closed commenting community (no surprise) that prevents me from directing these comments to Morrissey directly.  As for Patterico, the question is how he – as a lawyer and the self-proclaimed defender of absolute truth – can allow his site to approvingly link to a post that so disingenuously treats mere allegation as fact.

Day 051/365 3.10.2010 – Monotone, 1st Pass

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The folks over at Gizmodo have posted a new shooting challenge for the week, “Monotone.” I don’t particularly like this one but I was running out of time in the day to get a picture posted. The good news is that submissions are not due until Sunday, March 14th at 11PM Eastern so you can expect a few more tries before my final photo.

Ok Flickr Folk, anyone interesting in joining me in this challenge?

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Day 050/365 3.09.2010 – Mixed Messages

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I was born and raised Roman Catholic but as I grew older I realized quickly that the only thing tying me to my religion was tradition. As a result I spent many years seeking, reading and learning. Eventually my wife and I met a friend, Ani, who introduced us to Buddhism. Together we took refuge with a simple Ch’an (Chinese Zen) Buddhist monk from Woodstock, NY. This experience sent us down the path where we find ourselves on today, in the Drikung Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

This photo depicts a dorje – the Tibetan Buddhist symbol representing the ‘thunderbolt of enlightenment’ – sitting atop my mother’s Roman Catholic Bible which was she received upon her first communion and passed down to me upon mine, turned to Psalm 146.

"Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
I will praise the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praises to my God all my life long."

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Day 049/365 3.08.2010 – Cherry Blossoms

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Sorry for the delay in posting this one but for some reason I crashed hard last night before I got a chance to pull in my photos.

This picture was taken at the edge of the parking lot at my office where there is a beautiful Flowering Cherry tree.

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Day 048/365 3.07.2010 – Tweetie

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It didn’t take too much time before Gabby decided that the Academy Awards were not for her. Instead, she decided it would be a great night for some crafts.

Meet Tweetie.

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Day 047/365 3.06.2010 – Flow

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To be honest, while I like this picture I would not have chosen it as my photo for today were it not for the unanimous input from my wife, daughter and mother. My first choice was the dogwood but sometimes you just have to listen to reason.

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