Vancouver 2010

Here are some of my favorite photos from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
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Man almost kills himself for the perfect photos

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Fire & Ice

CANDLELIT HUTS: A visitor took photos of the candlelit miniature Kamakura, or snow huts, on Monday during the Kamakura Snow Festival in Japan. In the 400-year-old folk event, local children offer sweet sake and grilled rice cakes to visitors as they invite them into the snow huts to worship the god of water at an alter carved inside.(Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

Photo of the Day 2/18/10

BOWING TO THE COACH: The Missouri mascot bowed to Texas coach Rick Barnes as he walked off the court following Texas’s 82-77 loss in Columbia, Mo., Wednesday. (L.G. Patterson/Associated Press)

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

This is about as close to a White Christmas as I'm going to get this year
The Boston Big Picture blog put up a bunch of snow pictures
these area few of my favorites
see the rest of them here

A woman walks in a park during a heavy snowfall in the center of Sofia, Bulgaria on December 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)

Snow covers the a decorated tree in front of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A worker clears snow from the steps of the United States Supreme Court December 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. Heavy snowfall blanketed portions of the east coast with snowfall in the Washington, DC area up to two feet. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Snow blankets woodland in the South Downs National Park on December 18, 2009 near Coldharbour, England. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

A deer lifts its head, sitting in the snow in Richmond Park on December 16, 2009 in London, England. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Photos of the Day 12/22/09

PLAYING TAPS: U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Dennis Edelbrock played “Taps” on his bugle during the funeral of Sgt. Daniel Frazier at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery Tuesday. Sgt. Frazier died Nov. 19 in Afghanistan due to wounds sustained in a suicide bombing. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

ENVIRONMENTAL GRAFFITI: The phrase “I don’t believe in global warming” was written on a wall next to Regent’s Canal in London Tuesday. British media have attributed the graffiti to street artist Banksy. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)

MAY THE BULLS BE WITH YOU: Darth Vader and storm trooper characters from “Star Wars” rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City Tuesday. (Dario Cantatore/Getty Images)

Winter Landing

Air Force One, with President Obama aboard, arrives in the snow at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.


Waving Goodbye to 2009

Christmas Vacation, British Version

a crazy British guy bought a 50 foot tree
and put it in his house
pretty cool pictures
read the whole story here
is it real? or is it an optical illusion?




Space Shuttle Launch