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Red flower, green leaf, blue sky

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Hummingbird wings

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Puffy little hummingbird, a split second before he flew away

Jellyfish - Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Orange rose

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From a flower arrangement from my grandmother’s memorial service

Some buddies

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Really like this flower pic - think the colors came out really cool.

Backyard boy

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Trying to grab a few shots of Quinn when he wandered out into the backyard while I was taking pix of some flowers.

Currently my favorite song

Hear the whole version of Muse’s Uprising here!

My sister and her kids - and my grandfather - were filmed for a news segment in Normandy, where they were for the 65th anniversary of D-Day! My grandfather was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne and jumped from a plane into France on that historic day.

On June 6, 1944, American paratrooper Chet Graham parachuted over the French town of Saint-Mére-Eglise as some 156,000 American and Allied soldiers invaded northern France in a bid to liberate France from German occupation. Seventy soldiers of his company of 150 died in the attack. Chet, now 91, has returned to Normandy regularly for more than 30 years and says when he dies, he wishes to be buried here. On the 65th anniversary of D-Day, Chet brought four generations of his family to Normandy so that they will never forget what he lived through. An AFPTV report.

And here’s the video:

Find out a little more about my grandfather, Captain Chester Graham, on this Flickr page.

Update: Found one more vid, this one in Spanish - but it also has different shots:

Chet Graham: veterano estadounidense que desembarcó en Normandía

Eurostar trains in Paris (tiltshifted)

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I love how these look like real toy trains