Window at Hampton St. house

Photo by D. Bowden

Old house

D. Bowden
This is the front entrance of my daughter's new place

Old shed

Photo by D. Bowden

Cornfields and Blue Skies

Photo by D. Bowden
I took this as we were driving east on I-80 in Indiana.

Sun peeking through the tree branches

Photo by D. Bowden

Galaxy Diner - Richmond's Carytown neighborhood

Photo by D. Bowden

They have the best friend pickles, fried Twinkies and fried Oreo cookies! Also Coke in bottles from Mexico made with pure cane sugar instead of corn syrup.

Galaxy Diner

Photo by D. Bowden

Flower after rain

Photo by D. Bowden
Using Dare phone camera

Tiger drinking

by D. Bowden

This is a tiger at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. I took a photo while he was refreshing himself and then used PhotoShop effects to give it a watercolor look.

Mary wading

by D. Bowden

Mary wading in the water at Hammonesset Beach in Connecticut. I took the picture with my Canon EOS and then scanned it and used some PhotoShop effects.

Death Valley

by D. Bowden - 2002

Pinky-orange sunset in early spring

by D. Bowden
View from my kitchen window

Palm Tree and blue

by D. Bowden

I took this shot while in St. Augustine, Florida a few years ago. I love this city and all of the history there. I especially love the blueness of the water, there. Absolutely gorgeous, clean and sparkling.

Desert lizard

by D. Bowden
Caught a shot of this little guy basking in the sun on the rim of the Grand Canyon, 1998.

Road to Meteor Crater

by D. Bowden

Road to Meteor Crater in Flagstaff, AZ - 1998

Grand Canyon 1998

by D. Bowden

I took this photo back in 1998 when we were on one of our last family vacations together, before everyone went and grew up on us. ;-) Now they take their own trips. I would love to go back here, though.

Sun rays in Mumbai

(AFP/Sajjad Hussain)

Indian couples sit on a sea wall as they enjoy the last rays of sun in Mumbai.

Spring in London

(AFP/Shaun Curry)

Daffodil flowers are pictured in front of London's Big Ben.

Colours of Malaysia

REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim

Malaysians perform during the launch of the "Colours of Malaysia" festival in Kuala Lumpur March 21, 2009.

Pretty fishes

(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

Goldfish swim in an aquarium at a market in north of Tehran.

Seagull snack

(AFP/Mustafa Ozer)

A Turkish man throws a fish to a seagull during a sunset in Istanbul. The gulls on the Golden Horn have become quite adept at scrounging handouts from fishermen.

Mosque view

(AFP/Marwan Naamani)

A general view shows the Sheikh Zayed mosque, the third largest mosque in the world, located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Egg on her dress

REUTERS/Carlos Barria

A model displays a creation designed by Agatha Ruiz De La Prada of Spain at Miami Fashion Week in Florida March 22, 2009.

I don't know who would ever wear these bizarre clothes that designers create. Never see even movie stars wearing them.

A Dog named Shamrock

(AFP/Peter Muhly)
Happy St Patrick's Day!

IPS cells

(AFP/Shinya Yamanaka-Kyoto University/File)

Photo provided by Kyoto University shows IPS cells which can develop into cells of various body parts: such as muscle, neural tissues and cartilage. US President Barack Obama is set to wipe out another contentious aspect of his predecessor George W. Bush's legacy by removing curbs on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.

Bee sitting on a Dahlia

(AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)

Garden bloom : A honeybee rests on a dahlia blooming in a garden of New Delhi.

Tschaikovsky's Serenade

REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh (HUNGARY) Wed Mar 4, 7:51 AM ET

Ballet dancers perform Tschaikovsky's Serenade based on a choreography by George Balanchine in Budapest's State Opera March 4, 2009.

Holi Festival - India

REUTERS/K. K. Arora (INDIA)

People throw coloured powder while celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi (festival of colours) at Nand Gaon in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, March 6, 2009. The tradition of Holi heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.

Baby red panda

(AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Pemba, a four-month-old red panda cub makes his first public appearance at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Australia, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Pemba is the 44th red panda cub bred in the zoo's international breeding program for the endangered species since 1977.

Louis, Hedley and Dorothy

(AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record Mark Wilson)

Ring-tailed Lemur family at the Spring River Zoo in Roswell, New Mexico, examine and nibble upon an old cardboard box that had blown into their cage Wednesday, March 4, 2009 during gusty winds. According to zoo director Elaine Mayfield the Lemur cage is cleaned out every morning to clear such debris.

Shadow bride

(AFP/Ferenc Isza)

Budapest catwalk : A model presents an outfit by Hungarian designer Imre Stumpf during the opening of Hometrend and Design exhibition in the Hall of Art in Budapest.

Dolphins and tiger cub

(AP Photo/Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Nancy Chan)

In this photo provided by Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Mavrick, a 14-month-old male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, blows a mass of bubbles while checking out Akaasha, a six-month-old female Bengal tiger at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Park animal staff strolled by the dolphin exhibit as they escorted the tiger cubs on their daily walk around the park.

Beautiful but toxic blue

(AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)

In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a blue poison dart frog is perched on a rock at the Bronx Zoo, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 in New York. The frog's blue color serves and an indicator for other species that its secretions are toxic.

Space shuttle Atlantis

(AP Photo/John Raoux)

Space shuttle Atlantis on pad 39A, left, and space shuttle Endeavour on pad 39B stand ready at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. Atlantis is targeted for an Oct. 10 launch on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour will be on standby in the unlikely event that a rescue mission for the Atlantis's crew would be necessary. After Endeavour is cleared from its duty as a rescue vehicle, workers will move it to pad 39A in preparation for a mission to the International Space Station on Nov. 12.

Blue Olympic performers

REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV

Performers take part in the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games at the National Stadium, September 6, 2008. The stadium is also known as the Bird's Nest.

Planets collide

(Lynette R. Cook/ UCLA/Handout/Reuters)

This artist's rendering, released September 19, 2008, shows a planetary collision in the constellation Aries. Masses of dust floating around a distant binary star system suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent collision, U.S. researchers reported Friday.

Flamingo

(AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)

In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a Chilean pink flamingo preens its feathers at the Bronx Zoo in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008.

"Planet"

I'm still trying to figure out why this is entitled "Planet". Any ideas?

REUTERS/Darren Staples (BRITAIN)

Visitors look at a sculpture entitled "Planet" by British artist Marc Quinn at a Sotherby's selling exhibition at Chatsworth House, central England September 16, 2008.

Blue clouds

Photographer unknown (if anyone knows, please let me know so I can credit this gorgeous photo.)

Sumatran tiger cubs :

(AFP/DDP/Sascha Schuermann)

Two six-week-old baby Sumatran tigers sit in their enclosure at the zoo in the western German city of Krefeld where they received their first vaccinations against disease.

Mr and Mrs Mallard in our covered swimming pool

Photo by: By D. Bowden

We haven't yet opened our swimming pool yet this year because we have been so busy with other things, so a pair of ducks have made the pool their home. Funny how they keep coming back and keep diving for fish that are not there . . . or at least I hope there aren't any fish in there!

Mrs Mallard diving for "fish" in our covered swimming pool

Photo by D Bowden

Mr Mallard diving for fish in our covered pool

Photo by D. Bowden

Bunny in our backyard

Photo by D. Bowden
This is one of the rabbits we have living in and around our backyard.

The Rhine Falls near Neuhausen

(AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Scmidt)

The Rhine Falls near Neuhausen, Switzerland, is illuminated by blue lights, overnight Saturday April 19, 2008. Swiss artist Charles Keller illuminated the Rhine falls with coloured lights, after it was only lit by two white flood lights in the past. The new illumination is a measure to improve the public image of Europe's biggest water fall.

Unbelievable that this is a photograph.

Dali's Boat

Design for Mad Tristan

By Salvador Dali

Etheral Dancer

(AFP/Leon Neal)

A woman from Canadian circus group, Cirque du Soleil performs "Delirium" onstage at the O2 arena in London.

Bull-headed

(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Bulls, 'Toli,' left, pushes head to head with 'Bungyong' in the 2008 Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, southeast of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 13, 2008. More than 180 bulls from all of the nation took part in a week-long bullfighting event.

Whooo!

(AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

A young burrowing owl looks out for food in a park in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Sunday, April 20, 2008. The greatest threat to the burrowing owl community is habitat destruction, caused primarily by land development.

Profile in contrast

(AFP/Joel Saget)
A French worker stands outside of a restaurant in Paris.

Rosetti chandelier

(AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)

A huge chandelier hangs on the ceiling of the Rosetti hall inside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, where press conferences were given during NATO's 2008 Bucharest summit.

Love in winter snow

REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE)
A couple kisses on Kiev's Bridge of Lovers on Valentine's Day
February 14, 2008

Reflections in a winter puddle

(AFP/GETTY IMAGES/Mario Tama)
Wintry walk :

A woman walks past Tompkins Square Park during a morning snow storm in New York City.

Monkeys in a hot spring

REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN)

Japanese monkeys soak in a hot spring in a snow-covered valley in Yamanouchi town, central Japan February 17, 2008.

Swimming

AP News Photo

Merry Belugas

(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

Santa Belugas : White Belugas, wearing Santa hats pose with a trainer during a new Christmas show at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, in Kanagawa prefecture.

"Romantic Feelings"

REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT

Workers make a snow sculpture "Romantic Feelings" in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, December 16, 2007. The sculpture will debut at the 20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo which starts from December 20, at the Sun Island Scenic Area in Harbin, local media said. Picture taken December 16, 2007.

REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo (PHILIPPINES)

A man lights a cigarette in front of a giant lantern during the Christmas Lantern Festival in San Fernando, Pampanga, north of Manila December 15, 2007. The lantern festival is held annually by the local government to promote and attract local and foreign tourists. Each lantern, which took two months to prepare by at least 20 people, has more than 3,000 bulbs and measures 20 feet (6 m) in diameter.

Santa goes swimming

(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

A man dressing as Santa Claus frolics in the sea during the 63nd Christmas bathe in Nice, southern France, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. 250 swimmers took part to the bathe. The water was 15 degrees Celsius, 59 Fahrenheit.

Pull-ups

(AFP/Adrian Dennis)

Hanging out : A Blue Tit hangs from a branch awaiting its turn on a bird feeder in forestry commission land near Minley Manor, Farnborough, some 40 miles west of London.

Shadow Dancing

AFP/Fabrice Coffrini

Temple of Poseidon

(AP Photo/Frank Hormann)

Sculptor Tolek Zen from Poland works at his sculpture entitled 'Temple of Poseidon' in Roevershagen, northern Germany, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007.

Potato Tree

REUTERS/Pilar Olivares (PERU)

Students stand next to a Christmas tree made of potatoes at a local institute in Lima December 4, 2007. Students made the tree using 98kg (216 lbs) of potatoes and 18 varieties.

My daughter Mary

My daughter, Mary went dressed as Leeloo from Fifth Element this Halloween. She used conduit tape she bought at Home Depot! Halloween is her favorite holiday.

Water drops on a spider web

Water drops hang in a spider web on a foggy morning in Frankfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Autumn reflection

An autumn coloured forest is reflected on the lake of Viacha outside Minsk. (AFP/Viktor Drachev)

Boathouse in Germany

A boathouse is mirrored in the Lake Max Eyth in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007. November started with a bright sunny day in southern Germany. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

Moon and mountain

Glacier moon : The moon is seen above the "Feegletscher" (Fairy Glacier) near the ski resort of Saas-Fee. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Green glass art

At first I thought this was something under a microscope!

This is a work of glass art by artist Dale Chihuly at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh as a part of the Chihuly at Phipps gardens and art exhibit on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Sky on fire

An old farming hay boom is silhouetted by the sky Friday morning, Nov. 2, 2007, sunrise south of Nampa, Idaho. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Mike Vogt)

Red-feathery model

A model presents a creation by Nicola Le Cauchios of France during a fashion show in Budapest October 27, 2007. REUTERS/Karoly Arvai (HUNGARY)

Pigtails

REUTERS/Ajay Verma (INDIA)

A girl makes a pigtail to another girl against the sunset in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh July 30, 2007.

Dancers in Bogota

(AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)

Women dance in the streets during a carnival parade in Bogota, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007. Thousands of people take part in the carnival festivities during a celebrating marking the 469th anniversary of Bogota's foundation.

Swimming in a sea of feathers

(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

A duck swims in a sea of feathers dropped from molting geese and ducks that have taken up residence around the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007, in Washington.

exotic dance

REUTERS/Francisco Bonilla (SPAIN)

Dancers perform an exotic dance during the 13th Moorish Games of Aben Humeya in Purchena, southeast Spain late August 5, 2007. The games is a competition of medieval sports and exotic dancing.

Neon cheers

(AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

A Taiwanese model displays fluorescent lipstick and drinks made by fluorescent protein during the Bio Taiwan Exhibition, Thursday, July 26, 2007, in Taipei, Taiwan. The fluorescent protein is multi-application and extracted from algae.

Water babe

(AP Photo/The Boomerang, AAron Ontiveroz)

Zane Tillman, 4, cools off beneath the water's surface at the Laramie Rec Center outdoor swimming pool, Tuesday afternoon, July 24, 2007, in Laramie, Wyo.

Hanging balloons

REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY)

Artists perform hanging from balloons as they float over Piazza del Popolo during a light show in downtown Rome July 21, 2007.

Human goldfish

(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

Swimmers perform like gold fish in a large fish tank during a preview of the Muscle Musical at a Toyko theater.

Purple Iris

Photo by D. Bowden

Awwwww

Photo by Mary Bowden

Sniff....

Photo by Mary Bowden

You lookin' at me?

Photo by Mary Bowden

Light style

(AFP/Sam Yeh)
Two Taiwanese models demonstrate their LED
light clothing during a photonics festival in Taipei.

Casting into the Missouri River

(AP Photo/Great Falls Tribune, Robin Loznak)

Trakker Koon, 6, stands on a rock as he casts into the Missouri River near Great Falls, Mont., while fishing with brother and father on Tuesday, June 12, 2007.

Kiev Pigeons

(AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

Pigeons besiege an elderly man passing in front of the Soviet era Monument of Russia-Ukrainian friendship in Kiev.

Gators on the Yangtze

REUTERS/Jianan Yu (CHINA)

Yangtze alligators swim in a lake at the Chinese Alligator Propagation Research Center in Xuancheng, east China's Anhui province, June 12, 2007. Chinese experts have warned that inbreeding could harm efforts to save the country's endangered Yangtze alligator, already decimated by environmental pollution in its native habitat, state media reported.

Fishermen at sunset

REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GEORGIA)

Fishermen haul in their nets at sunset in Gagra, a town in the Georgian break-away region of Abkhazia, June 7, 2007. Picture taken June 7, 2007.

Jimmy Hendrix light sculpture

(AP Photo/PA, Yui Mok)

A newly-erected sculpture of Jimi Hendrix on the site of the Isle of Wight Festival at Seaclose Park, Isle of Wight, England, Thursday June 7, 2007. The Isle of Wight Festival starts Friday and runs through Sunday.

Poppies and purple flowers

Photo by D. Bowden
Taken at Thomas Jefferson's garden walkway, Monticello Virginia

Poppies

REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (GERMANY)

Poppies are pictured on a sunny day in a field near Olching, around 25km (17 miles) west of Munich

Grand Canary Island fountain

Photo by my friend, Susanne Windebo

Peoplefall

artist unknown (If anyone knows who did this, please leave a comment and let me know.)

President James Monroe grave

By D. Bowden
June 2007

Sunrise on the highway

Photo by D Bowden
Somewhere in Indiana, June 2007

Mount Vernon, front view

Photo by D Bowden
June 2007

George Washington's Conservatory, Mount Vernon

Photo by D. Bowden
June 2007

Virginia state capitol building, Richmond

Photo by D. Bowden

Bell Flowers

Photo by D Bowden
June 2007 at George Washington's gardens, Mount Vernon

Jumala sunset

(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)

Swans fly over the Baltic sea during a sunset in Jurmala, near Riga.

Tiger swimming

(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Odin, a five-year-old, 445 pound white Bengal tiger dives for a piece of meat during a performance at the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif., Wednesday, May 30, 2007. Odin was born at the park and was hand raised.

Fireworks over Moscow

REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA)

White peacock

(AFP/Noah Seelam)

White peacock : A white peacock opens its feathers at its cage in the Nehru Zoological park in Hyderabad.

Brigantine beach at dusk

I love it here . . .Photo by D. Bowden

Yorktown Tom Turkey

Photo by D. Bowden

This turkey was just wandering around the Yorktown farm at the Yorktown Victory Center in Virginia. It was gobbling away and strutting around for photographers, however, if you got to close he would stick his rear end towards you and ruffle his feathers in a warning to back off!

Sunset view from my back porch

Photo by D. Bowden

Fountain at Richmond capitol building

Photo by D. Bowden June 2007

Monticello garden path

Click on image to enlarge

Photo by Jon Bowden June 2007

Mount Vernon garden path

Click on image to enlargePhoto by Jon Bowden June 2007

George and Martha's Garden at Mount Vernon

Click on image to enlargePhoto by Jon Bowden June 2007

New Cape Henry Lighthouse - Fort Story, Virginia

Photo by D. Bowden June 2007

Salvador Dali

Women In Art

These next four are by one of my favorite artists, Maxfield Parrish

Reveries (detail), by Maxfield Parrish

"Griselda", 1910 by Maxfield Parrish

"Evening" - Maxfield Parrish

"Christmas Morning" - Maxfield Parrish

Bicycling through dancing water

(AFP/DDP/Clemens Bilan)

A woman cycles past a fountain next to Berlin's Chancellery.

Asian dancers in fur hats

REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN)

Dancers perform during an event as a part of the 2007 Japan-China Culture and Sports Exchange Year at the National Theatre in Tokyo April 12, 2007.

Goldmine of fruit

(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)

King of the castle : A white-handed gibbon eats a banana while sitting on a giant fruit display at the Everland amusement and animal park in Yongin, south of Seoul, during the opening of an anthropoid theme park called "Friendly Monkey Valley."

Sisters

(AFP/DDP/Roland Magunia)

More of Mary's crazy photography

I have to find out how she did these artsy ones.

This last one is hilarious considering that she is so skinny!

The Horseback Ride

William Bouguereau
1884
Oil on canvas
39 ^7/8 x 53 ^7/8 inches (101.5 x 137 cm)
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

At the Edge of the Brook

William Bouguereau
1875
Oil on canvas

End of a Tradition

Click on image to enlarge
Michael De Brito
End of a Tradition
Oil on Canvas
48 x 36 inches

Norbert Goeneutte

Reine Goeneutte Washing The Young Jean Guerard
In The Artist's Studio
1889
Oil on canvas
57 x 45 ^1/4 inches (145 x 115 cm)
Private collection

Crowned crane

(AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)

View from the zoo : An African crowned crane (Balearica Pavonina) rests in its enclosure at the Zoological park in New Delhi.

Painting with fingernail

REUTERS/Amit Dave (INDIA)

Nail artist Nangaji Bhati, 45, uses his four-inch long nail to paint on a canvas during a painting exhibition in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad March 12, 2007.

Three's company

(AP Photo/Mail Tribune, Bob Pennell)

Three Nigerian dwarf milk goats, from the left, Chloe, Dewdrop and Puzzle put their heads together on Pholia Farm near Rogue River, Ore., Thursday, March 7, 2007. The Rogue River area farm makes goat cheese with the help of a herd of small goats.

'Pasos Contados'

REUTERS/Anton Meres (SPAIN)

Flamenco dancer Rocio Molina performs during her show 'Pasos Contados' at the Villamarta theatre in the southern Spanish town of Jerez February 27, 2007. Picture taken on February 27, 2007.

'Femenino plural'

REUTERS/Anton Meres (SPAIN)

Flamenco dancer Angeles Gabaldon performs during her show 'Femenino plural' at the Villamarta theatre during the Jerez Flamenco Festival in the southern Spanish town of Jerez March 5, 2007. Picture taken on March 5, 2007.

A Lunar Eclipse is seen by the Big Ben in London

Saturday, March 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

A Bridge in Beijing

REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV (CHINA)

A resident crosses a bridge shrouded with fog at a park in Beijing February 21, 2007. A dense fog covering Beijing cut visibility to a few dozen metres and paralysed flights in and out of the national capital on Wednesday, disrupting China's week-long Lunar New Year celebrations.

Chinese acrobats

REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV (CHINA)

Artistes perform during an acrobatics show in Beijing February 21, 2007. Acrobatics, dating back to more than 2,000 years, is one of China's oldest art forms. Picture taken February 21, 2007.

Balancing act

(AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhou Hua)

A monkey plays a handstand on the horns of a goat as the goat keeps balance on a rope at a zoo in Nanning, capital of China's Guangxi Province Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007. The zoo has arranged a series of animal shows to amuse tourists during the Spring Festival holidays.

Museum reflection

(AFP/ANP/Rick Nederstigt)

A woman reflected in a picture walks through the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. The museum will be reopened after the renovation with a photo exhibition of Robert Capa and Eva Besnyo.

Sister ships

(AP/Cunard Line, Jason Busch)

The Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner approach the Sydney Harbor Bridge before berthing at Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia, on Feb. 20. The Queen Elizabeth 2 arrived in Sydney Harbor at dusk and sailed past its sister ship, the world's largest ocean liner Queen Mary 2, top, to berth opposite the Sydney Opera House.

Chinese New Year Parade - Chicago's Chinatown

(Tribune photo by José M. Osorio)

Members of the Chicago Dragons Athletic Association make their way down South Wentworth during the Chinese New Year Parade, "Year of the Boar, 4705," in the streets of Chinatown in Chicago on Sunday.

Little sparrow goes house-hunting

Salina, Kansas
(AP/Salina Journal, Tom Dorsey)

Pizza House - New Haven, CT

Photo by: D Bowden 2005

Cuban dancer

(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

A dancer of the Cuban Wushu Association performs during the ceremony to welcome the Chinese New Year in Havana, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007.

Viking Boat on Interstate

Photo by D Bowden

We saw this guy towing this Nordic monstrosity down the interstate highway in New York when we were on our way back from visiting our daughter a couple years ago. I wonder what he was going to do with it.

Dead tree

Bryce Canyon 1996 - Photo by D Bowden

Empire State Building NYC

By D Bowden 2005

Wet smooch

REUTERS/Nir Elias

A pair of Kissing Gourami fish kiss at the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium on Valentine's Day in Shanghai February 14, 2007.

In the shadow of light

REUTERS/Kevin Coombs (BRITAIN)

A model passes a huge light as she displays a creation by British designers Preen during their Autumn/Winter 2007 show at London Fashion Week in London February 14, 2007.

Chinese red lanterns

AP Photo

A worker prepares to install Chinese red lanterns, a traditional spring festival ornament, in a corridor made of approximately 1,000 red lanterns in Wuhan, China's Hubei province Saturday Feb. 10, 2007.

Snowman gathering

REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)

Snowmen are lined up at the Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, northern Japan February 7, 2007. The festival will run until February 12.

Seagull Reflection

Photo by: D. Bowden

Baby James

Photo by: A. Bowden
Grayscale developing by: D. Bowden