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<\/a>I got the opportunity to climb a tall building at the same time as a call from my wife telling me that the clouds were amazing.\u00a0 She wasn’t kidding.<\/p>\n<\/a>Here’s a panorama from the front of the Lewis & Clark riverboat as we slowly chugged toward the Northern Pacific railroad bridge.<\/p>\n<\/a>This is a cool blue sunset from one of my little boys’ favorite sandbars.\u00a0 They’re chasing a toad behind me, so they don’t appear on camera playing in the sand here.<\/p>\n<\/a>The clouds advancing on us as I showed the fellas the old cemetery at Fort Abraham Lincoln were very striking.\u00a0 The sunset had just waned and we were ready to march back to the truck and load up our bikes.<\/p>\n<\/a>Setting up for our own Independence Day celebration.\u00a0 The capitol and rodeo grounds had nothing on this show.\u00a0 It was spectacular!\u00a0 The food was good, too…and parking was easy.<\/p>\n<\/a>This surprised me as Sam Sprynczynatyk and I were about to set up the crane and preparing our lighting gear for the video shoot for Tigirlily’s new single, which was released via the Internet yesterday.\u00a0 I snapped a quick panorama before setting up the gear and waiting for the girls to arrive.<\/p>\n<\/a>Getting Camera 1 ready for the monster truck show.\u00a0 My little guys visited me at work that night, and they were pretty enthralled.\u00a0 A couple of nights before they’d watched me on the roof of a local hospital, shooting video and stills of the helicopter landing and taking off.\u00a0 Daddy’s got a pretty cool job, they said…but their uncle is a MAILMAN!\u00a0 I guess I can’t top that.<\/p>\n<\/a>More sandbar stuff, because I have made good use of the tail end of the summer in order to enjoy sand, sun, Spyro Gyra, my sweetie, and my sons.\u00a0 Superb.<\/p>\n<\/a>“Bubble Bliss” at the Gateway to Science Center. \u00a0 I think I’ll still be posting and blogging about that sometime soon, if I get the time.\u00a0 I got encapsulated in a very large bubble, which was a new experience.<\/p>\n<\/a>Each of these flags represents a murder.\u00a0 It’s part of a traveling display to bring awareness to the blight of abortion on North Dakota.\u00a0 I long for the day when such tragedies never take place in our great state.<\/p>\n<\/a>There’s no dramatic foreground or interesting perspective here; I just loved the colors of this sunset so much that I pulled over on a hill along Valley Drive, just south of the playground, and snapped a few shots to stitch together in Photoshop.\u00a0 I’d just taken my little boy to TCBY for rainbow yogurt to tell him how proud Daddy is of him, and the sun provided us with quite a spectrum of its own.\u00a0 I didn’t get a blue tongue from it, however.<\/p>\n