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Our runners are preparing for today’s race as I write this.  Five o’clock seems way way too early to be getting up.  With dawn still an hour away, and a bloody cold wind outside, I’m not envying them the trip out to Staten Island.  The plan, since there are concerns about the ability of buses to all get to the starting line on time, is for the guys to take the Staten Island Ferry and then a shuttle out to the race.  We’ll be following our usual plan as support folks, and catch them at the 12 mile marker, and again as they enter the park at the 24 mile marker.  I’m considering shooting a few pics over the reservoir at dawn, but then again I may find a coffee shop and hole up there for a few hours.

Since the majority of my photo work gets done on the weekends, and I have a sizeable backlog of projects right now, all day today was spent editing images. Even by my standards, today was long, with 18 hours of photo-work logged. I was, happily, able to close out two projects, which leaves me with two more to finish Sunday. And there is leftover office work to do too. This brick wall is gonna’ give one of these days.

Sorry, but I had to post this.  It was too cute to not share.

After 10 years living in Raleigh, my mother has finally retired and moved away.  The retirement was back in Ocotober, but the move finally happened Saturday.  After lots of packing and organizing, mostly done by Mom and Taryn, we took Mom to the airport for her flight out to Washington.  She arrived, safe and sound, that night, greeted by my brother-in-law and their kids.  I haven’t had a chance to talk with her much since then, but it sounds like she’s enjoying it so far.  I made this image about half an hour before leaving for the airport.

Alex has had his fifteen minutes of fame, or more like 20 seconds.