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12 years 7months His age is catching up with him. He has lived the last 2 1/2 years as a diabetic. An insulin shot in the morning and in the evening. But with help from his great Vet. this is very much under control.

He is just a great dog...

Our brothers and sisters at The Iron Rail in the Marigny have taken an interesting viewpoint that was brought further by someone writing for the Nola.com site. Here are both takes:

www.ironrail.org/blog/2008/05/fred-radtke-is-new-orleans....

blog.nola.com/vandalismtoday/2008/05/radtke_reconsidered_...

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

Northern Harrier

Weld County, Colorado

First time I've seen the male Northern Harrier - he was scanning the fields at the Great Swamp.

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On board the Queen Mary, Long Beach, Ca

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Ridley, Daddy, Angel-face,

Ridley and I playing with Photo Booth

Ridley, Daddy, Angel-face,

Ridley and I playing with Photo Booth

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1958/1959 race car was displayed inside the Indianapolis Airport.

This well-appointed "NO GREY GHOST" stencil was just sent to England for someone who specially requested it. I might add that the No Grey Ghost stencil was not made by yours truly, but clearly carries my stamp of approval.

Ridley, Daddy, Angel-face,

Ridley and I playing with Photo Booth

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Spotted this male Northern Harrier snacking on a field mouse this morning at Bombay Hook NWR. Met up with Jerry am Ende, but he missed this shot because he was taking hundreds of photos of Carole Kingfisher! *grin*

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

Blandy Experimental Farm and State Arboretum of Virginia, Clarke County, Virginia, U.S.A.

Mies LOVES his new bed! Picked up free on the street in Seattle. Queen Anne on the corner of 3rd Ave W and Crockett. Under the big round cushion is a mini-trampoline. Imagine that! The Weims don't know it yet, though. I can't have a couple of bouncing Weims all over the place....

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Think Pink! For the cure ~ Please add your "pink" photos to : www.flickr.com/groups/pink2008 to help raise $ for the cure

Water Color Painting of Lylah

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Best On Black

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Ridley, Daddy, Angel-face,

Ridley and I playing with Photo Booth

No, it's not Fred Radtke. This is in the Bronx. I love the term "gray ghost" for buffed grafitti. Catherine mentioned to me that there is this guy, Fred Radtke, who buffs grafitti with a vengeance in New Orleans, slopping gray paint over any piece he'd see, even if it's on someone's house, fence, even completely covering stop street signs with gray paint! Even people who don't like grafitti in NOLA are supposedly pissed at him. At least the graf writers are trying to make an art form of sorts, adding to a city that has had so much taken away. Radtke is covering the city with grey blobs! But oddly enough, I've been attracted to these grey blobs in NY for years. There's this one underpass I walked through one night that had so many buffs from so many different times that it became this mess of abstraction. Unintentional modernist art! I was floored.

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We went to the beach with some of our dog park friends this Sunday and had a blast.

More playing around with the camera settings and processing

They were in the back yard & got busted digging for a mole! Neither were happy about having to come in the house & theproof they were being naughty is right there on their noses!

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Instead of removing this "DEFEND NEW ORLEANS" sticker, The newly appointed GRAY GANGSTA (the former grey ghost) painted over it on a wrought iron gate. Now, the single woman who takes care of this property has a grey outline where the sticker used to be. Fred, let's sit down and talk about this. Let's negotiate the finer points of logic. The Defend New Orleans guys aren't gangsters, they're businessmen. They're not street people, they advertise and hold parties. Work with those of us who love the city, not against us.

I love the look on this guys face. He allowed me to walk up to his tree, keeping his eye on me from a long ways back. Yes Gary, this is my pet. I love the Gray Ghost.

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male Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus

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From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB

Rough-legged Hawk chased the Gray Ghost above the big hill.

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thanks jaeger43 for the why they do it.

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