• Jesse - Slide Show - Teddy - Travel

    New York City Vacation Slide Show

    6/4/2009 - By 

    Man Oh Man. I have been working harder than I can ever remember. I am a man on a mission to finish a huge project sprinting to the finish line. When I want to, my focus can be amazing and singular. I really hope that I can look back at this period, and be amazed at how much work I got done.

    Despite all of that, I decided to take a lightening vacation to NY with my family. We arrived on a Friday and went to the Statue of Liberty. We woke up the next day, and grabbed a train from Grand Central to Pleasantville NY to visit my cousin, Nancy and her family. My other cousin, Larry, was also kind enough to join us for the train ride from NY to Pleansantville. We spent the night in Pleasantville, and early the next afternoon, we took the train back to NY. Then we hit Central Park. Amazingly enough, in my entire life, I had never been there. We found the little kid’s amusement park on the south end of the park. We spent the afternoon there, and caught a flight back to Myrtle Beach that night. Wow! That was a lot. But now it is back to work.

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    1. I live in New York but still have never been to the Statue of liberty. Did they open it up again? I heard they closed it after 911.

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  • Slide Show

    The World’s Greatest Husband

    2/15/2009 - By 

    Here’s one of the funniest emails I have received in a long time. It is an extremely funny photo series of contenders for the world’s greatest husband contest. Each photo is a look at a contender from a different country. The contending countries are Greece, Ireland, Poland, Serbia, the UK, and the USA. I hope you laugh as much as I did. I actually wonder whether all of these photos are real. Enjoy!

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    Playground in Recreio

    2/12/2009 - By 

    Last Sunday, Solange, Teddy, Jesse and I made the drive to Recreio to visit our friends Katia and Jason Elliott. Recreio is night and day different than the hustle and bustle of Rio and Lagoa. We went to a churrascaria close to their house that also had a small playground for children. The food was great and the kids had a great time playing together. I took a ton of photos with my new camera, mainly of the kids.

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  • Photos - Slide Show

    Transparent Butterflies

    2/1/2009 - By 

    It comes from Central America and is found from Mexico to Panama. It is quite common in its zone, but it not easy to find because of its transparent wings, which is a natural camouflage mechanism.

    A butterfly with transparent wings is rare and beautiful. As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence of this rare tropical gem is used by rain forest ecologists as an indication of high habitat quality and its demise alerts them of ecological change. Rivaling the refined beauty of a stained glass window, the translucent wings of the Glasswing butterfly shimmer in the sunlight like polished panes of turquoise, orange, green, and red. All things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed: in life that which is unnoticed has the most power.

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  • Slide Show

    Striped Iceburgs

    2/1/2009 - By 

    I am creating a new section of the web site related to slide shows. I receive quite a few emails with lots of cool, funny and sometimes inspiring photos. The problem is that email is not the best way to look at a series of photos. Basically you spend more time scrolling than enjoying the photos. Therefore, I decided to put these photos into a slide show which makes them stand out a lot more. The first one is called striped iceburgs.

    Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form. When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a Green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.

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