Mugashots - mugashots

Wolf Creek Pass/Continental Divide
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Cliff Palace, Mesa Verda National Park
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Hike down to Cliff Palace
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Cliff Palace, Mesa Verda National Park
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View from Cliff Palace
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Climb out of Cliff Palace
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Soda Canyon, Mesa Verda NP
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Soda Canyon, Mesa Verda NP
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Soda Canyon Trail
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Balcony House, Mesa Verda NP
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Balcony House Overlook
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Petroglyph Point Trail
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Petroglyph Point Trail
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Petroglyph Point Trail
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Petroglyph Point, Mesa Verda NP
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Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verda NP
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Four Corners
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Four Corners
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Four Corners
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Four Corners
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Hovenweep NP
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Hovenweep NP
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Hovenweep NP
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Hovenweep NP
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Hovenweep NP
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Lunch view Hovenweep NP
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Sleeping UTE
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Wilson's Arch near Hole in the Wall Utah
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Arches NP, Moab, Utah
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Arches NP, Moab, Utah
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Three Gossips, Arches National Park
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Hike to Delicate Arch
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Delicate Arch, Arches National Park
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Delicate Arch, Arches NP
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Delicate Arch, Arches NP
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Delicate Arch, Arches NP
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Delicate Arch, Arches NP
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Hike down from Delicate Arch
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Petroglyph's Arches NP
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Ground view of Delicate Arch
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Fiery Furnace, Arches NP
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Arches National Park
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Balanced Rock, Arches National Park
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Fall in Arches National Park
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Sheep Rock, Arches National Park
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Three Gossips with setting sun
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Arches National Park
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Canyonlands NP, near Moab, Utah
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Grandview Trail, Canyonlands NP
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Grandview Trail, Canyonlands NP
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Grandview Trail, Canyonlands NP
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Grandview Trail, Canyonlands NP
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Grandview Trail, Canyonlands NP
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Grandview Trail, Canyonlands NP
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Whale Rock Trail/Canyonlands NP
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Grandview Trail, Canyonlands NP
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Grandview Trail, Canyonlands NP
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Graineries, Aztec Butte Trail, Canyonlands NP
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Aztec Butte Trail/Canyonlands NP
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Aztec Butte Trail/Canyonlands NP
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Aztec Butte Trail/Canyonlands NP
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Aztec Butte Trail/Canyonlands NP
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Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP
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Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP
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Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP
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Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP
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Landscape Arch, Arches NP
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Landscape Arch Trail. Arches NP
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Tunnel Arch, Arches NP
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Pine Tree Arch/Arches NP
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Pine Tree Arch/Arches NP
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Pine Tree Arch/Arches NP
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Broken Arch Trail/Arches NP
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Broken Arch/Arches NP
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Broken Arch Trail/ Arches NP
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Broken Arch Trail/Arches NP
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Broken Arch Trail/Arches NP
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Broken Arch Trail/Arches NP
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Sand Dune Arch/Arches NP
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Sand Dune Arch/Arches NP
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Turrett/Arches NP
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The Windows/Arches NP
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The Windows/Arches NP
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Turrett/Arches NP
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North Window/Arches NP
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Fall in Arches NP
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Belmont Park, Mission Beach
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tim and dan.JPG
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Pat Dorsey.JPG
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annie o.JPG
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annie oneill.JPG
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Jim Dorsey.JPG
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dimps.JPG
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lucille.JPG
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3 Graduates

Marty, David & Sam Wilhelm

Graduate & aunts
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MMT & David
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Ktuck & David
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Mr. & Mrs. W and David
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patrick.jpg
patrick.jpg 2009-05-20

Sam 8th grade Graduation
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Sam 8th Grade Graduation

May 19, 2009

David, Sam & Marty
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Sam & Aunts
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EFT, II Law SLU Law Hooding
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EFT, II Law Hooding
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PDT ND Poly Sci Ceremony
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PDT ND Poli Sci Ceremony
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PDT & EFTII ND Dome
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before
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President Barack Obama
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during
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View of Marty's Graduation
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John Martin Wilhelm
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2 Margarets
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Margaret w/ Aunts and Uncle
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Margaret, Elizabeth & Eugene
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photo taken by Tony Sivaja from the plane

Great Barrier Reef
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Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef
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Caines Australia
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Great Barrier Reef
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Barron Falls
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Barron Falls
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Barron Falls
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Kurunda
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Kurunda Train
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Barron Falls
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Stoney Creek
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Wild Bird Kurunda
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Lizard in Kurunda
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Tjapukai Aboriginal Village
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Tjapukai Aboriginal Village
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Tjapukai Aboriginal Village
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Sydney Opera House
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Syney
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Sydney
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Sydney Harbor Tazman Sea
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Sydney
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Sydney
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Sydney
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Rain Forest
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Rain Forest
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Featherdale Wildlife
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Featherdale Wildlife
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Cable Car Rainforest
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Featherdale Wildlife
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Featherdale Wildlife
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Featherdale
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Featherdale
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Featherdale
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Featherdale
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Featherdale
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Roo at Featherdale
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penguins Featherdale
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Tazmanian Devil Featherdale
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Wombat Featherdale
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Featherdale
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Queenstown NZ
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Queenstown NZ
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Queenstown NZ

Bob's Peak

Bob's Peak
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Bob's Peak
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Rainforest Chasm
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Chasm Trail
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On way Milford Sound
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on way to Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Te Anau NZ
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Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Milford Sound
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Mitre Peak, Milford Sound
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MMT & Leigh Timms
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Back to Queenstown
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PugMahones, Queenstown
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PugMahones, Queenstown
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Earnslow, Queenstown NZ
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Winery Tour
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Winery Tour NZ
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Winery Tour NZ
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Winery Tour, NZ
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Earnslow
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Earnslow
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Walter Peak
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Earnslow Lake Wakatipu
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Walter Peak
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Walter Peak
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Mt. Cook, NZ
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Mt. Cook, NZ
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Mt. Cook, NZ
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Mt. Cook, NZ
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Near Mt. Cook
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Christchurch NZ
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Leaving Christchurch
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Redwoods
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Redwoods
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Redwoods Rotorua
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Redwoods
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Rotorua NZ
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Rotorua NZ
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Rotorua NZ
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Rotorua NZ
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Lunch Rotorua
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Milking Cow Agridome
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LGL & Leigh Timms
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Maori Hangi Rotorua
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Maori Hangi Show
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Matamata NZ
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Auckland NZ
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Auckland NZ~Shoshana
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Dublin Oct 2007

bleeding heart April 2009
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bleeding heart April 2009
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Bleeding Heart April 2009
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Waterville, Ireland 10/07
Leaving Waterville Ireland Oct 2007

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Rock of Cashel Ireland Oct 2007

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Portamagee, Ireland 10/07
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Kilkenny, Ireland 10/07
Kilkenny Ireland Oct 2007

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(reprint from Troy Taylor's Halloween newsletter)

JACK-O-LANTERNS

 The tradition of Halloween was brought to America by the Irish immigrants
who began arriving on these shores after the great Potato Famine of the
middle 1800s, introducing the Celtic festival of Samhain and forever
establishing the end harvest as the night when the dead walk the earth. 

It's no surprise then to find that the origin of the jack-o-lantern comes
from an Irish folk tale about a miserly blacksmith known as Stingy Jack.
Although the story has many variations, the most commonly told version has
Jack stumbling home from the pub one Halloween night when he ran into the
Devil himself. He agreed to make a bargain for his soul in exchange for one
last drink before he went to Hell. Being a bit of a tightwad, Jack asked the
Devil to pick up the tab. The Devil agreed and transformed himself into a
sixpence coin, which Jack was supposed to use to pay the bartender. Drunk or
not, Jack was a smart one and he quickly put the coin in his pocket, which
also contained his rosary. The Devil, unable to change back into his true
form next to the religious article, then made a deal with Jack that if he
let him out of his pocket, he would not return for Jack's soul for ten
years.

When the Devil returned a decade later, Jack agreed to go with him without a
fight if only he were allowed to pick an apple from a nearby tree and eat
it along the way. The Devil agreed, but then was tricked again by the clever
blacksmith. Using his penknife, Jack trapped the Devil by carving a crucifix
into the trunk of the apple tree. Infuriated at being tricked again, the
Devil agreed to let Jack alone if only he would set him free. Jack complied
and the Devil returned to Hell alone.

Years later, Jack died but he was not let into heaven because of his wicked
ways -- and he couldn't get into Hell because the Devil refused to have him.
Instead, he was damned to wander in the darkness between two worlds. To
light his way, the Devil gave him a glowing ember from Hell and Jack placed
it inside of an old gourd, which he used as a lantern.

Since then, Jack has roamed the darkness with his lantern eerily lighting
his path. The fear of meeting this lost soul spawned the Irish Halloween
custom of dressing in costumes to frighten away spirits. Townsfolk would
also leave offerings of food outside their front doors and carve faces into
potatoes and gourds, placing their in their windows to frighten away Jack or
any other ghosts who came to visit.

By the early 1700s, the term "jack-o-lantern", or "Jack of the Lantern" in
its original form, was used in Ireland as a nickname for night watchman who
patrolled villages at night with lanterns, scaring away prowlers and
animals. It wasn't until 1837 that the phrase "jack-o-lantern" first
appeared in American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's book Twice-Told Tales,
as a name for a carved, lighted pumpkin.

By the 1840s, as hundreds of thousands of poor Irish farmers were forced to
flee the famine for America, they brought their Halloween customs with them,
including the jack-o-lantern. Jack-o-lanterns slowly became an American
tradition but it was not until the 1966 Peanuts animated special, It's the
Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, that they became a full-fledged symbol of the
season. The show became an instant classic and the jack-o-lantern has been
an essential part of Halloween ever since.

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