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“Boulder Field.” Self-portraiture in Hickory Run State Park’s Boulder Field, a National Natural Landmark. Carbon Co., Pennsylvania. July 2008 |  |
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“Tidal Wave.” This sunset cloud readies to engulf a forest line in Fort Collins, Colorado. June 2008 |
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“Elken Snow.” Elk grazes by a lake in Yellowstone National Park, by Marisol Mayorga. May 2008 (#2) |  |
“Fountain of Youth.” Dion runs his hand through a water foundation at the Red Butte Garden in Salt Lake City, Utah. May 2008 (#1) |
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“Over the Top.” Citrus growers in Belize are beginning to use wild peanut to recover eroded soils. Here the cover crop plant scrambles over exposed roots and washed-out gullies (see orange in background). April 2008 |  |
“Flower Child.” Dion stalks the bush at University of Georgia's Monteverde, Costa Rica campus. March 2008 |
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“Spider Face.” This Belizean spider’s humanly half looks up from its arse. February 2008 |
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| “I Saw It First.” Dion exhibits his handy passion for tools. January 2008 |  |
“First Flight.” Dion reaches for the sky over Panama Beach, Costa Rica. December 2007 |  |
“Bone Uncrushing .” This Mayan bone healer seems to take great |
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“Hum Tongue.” This hummingbird sticks his tongue out in San Ramon, Costa Rica. October 2007 |  |
| “Fleeing the Photographer.” A glossy-backed thrush flees the photographer in Papallacta, Ecuador. September 2007 |  |
“Dreamworld.” Dion would seem to have found his first love; but she is not. August 2007 |  |
| “Total Concentration.” Marisol stops to attend son Dion while touring Shipyard Brewery in Portland, Maine. July 07 |
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“Volcanic Conversation.”Dion and Jorge share a few crude jokes in front of the ever elusive Arenal Volcano. June 07 |  |
| Ashton Lagoon, Union Island, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, is the site of a recent project. May 07 |  |
“Family Stomachs.” April 07 |  |
| This fully armed mosquito poses in our living room. March 07 |  |
We teach our fledgling to fly in Iztaru, Costa Rica. February 07 |  |
| The beauty of remodeling is that most construction begins with destruction such as with our front door this month. January 07 |  |
Bygone tree rises up at the Itabo Biological Reserve in southeastern Paraguay. December 06 |  |
| Dion rides his first pumpkin. November 06 |  |
To my father’s great suprise, Dion suddenly lashes out to fingerprint his glass. October 06 See the effect on his glasses. |
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This tartantula pauses as Marisol pushes Dion’s carriage by in Tres Ríos, Costa Rica. September 06 |
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Dion and Marisol cuddle in the cold winds at Turrialba Volcano National Park, Costa Rica. August 06 |
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| Dion, three months old on 1 August, laughs at the possibility that the Patriots won’t go all the way this season. July 06 |  |
Cows lounge on the crest of a hill in Puriscal, Costa Rica as a cloud passes over. June 06 |  |
Only a few days old and Dion is already making new friends. May 06
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Our cat Poe found and played with this beautiful scorpion in our bedroom in Costa Rica. We since blocked off the space beneath the door. April 06 |  |
| Self-portaiture of part of my Costa Rican family in a very tropical context. March 06 |  |
Jon (left) and Merrick Hoben tackle a snowwoman in the National Arboretum, Washington, DC. Click to see the large and complete animated version (1.2 Mb). Photos by Marisol Mayorga. Feb 06 |  |
| Marisol (right) and friend Sabine (left) share their prenatal babies who also share the exact same due date: 21 April. January 06 |  |
This cat welcomed our arrival at Twin Oaks intentional community. December 05 |
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The dawning sun crosses the Bay Bridge toward San Francisco. November 05 |
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Mae waits for his bath. October 2005 |  |
| Pennsylvania Bull Elk collects his harem at the outset of rutting season. September 2005 |  |
A humpback of a whale’s tale off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. July 2005 |  |
| Our black cat, Mae, prepares to roam the night. June 2005 |  |
This black-bellied whistling duck shows proper form at Edinburg Scenic Wetlands, Texas. May 2005 |  |
| Two months in the running, our two four-month-old adopted kittens, Poe and Mae ("Ma-eh"), earn photo of the month. April 2005 |  |
These two three-month old candidates for adoption perform the arts of kittenry. March 2005 |  |
| Starlings weather a snowstorm in Washington, D.C. Photo taken from Jon and Marisol’s apartment window. February 2005 |  |
This lizard suns himself on the back of a sea lion in the Galapagos Islands where Jon and Marisol honeymooned. December 2004 |  |
| Jon tests out the interactive exhibits at the Allegheny Arms & Armor Museum in Smethport, Pennsylvania. October 2004 |  |
Jon and Marisol race down the Wolf River in Wisconsin. Photo by Rory Palosky. July 2004 |  |
| Entitled “Fraternity, Liberty & Equality,” Jon took this self-portrait through the eyes and hands of Fernando Mayorga. May 2004 |  |
Jon grabs the high ground over a dried up lake i Nevada. Photo by Marisol Mayorga. Took place in November for April 2004. |
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| Jon participates in an ice-fishing adventure in Central Wisconsin. He is setting a tip-up over an ice fishing hole. Photo by Marisol Mayorga. January 2004 |  |
Jon delivering a petition of a local
group in Stevens Point, WI to the state represen-tative’s desk in DC. December 2003 |
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| Marisol with a thrilling bull’s eye at Brian in Yosemite National Park. November 2003 |  |
Jon, Marisol, Brad, Emily, and Julie slowly inch across a dangerous mountain bridge in northern Wisconsin. October 2003 |  |
| Jon and Marisol stand gently on sacred conservationist soil in front of Aldo Leopold’s shack in southern Wisconsin. September 2003 |  |
Jon and Marisol posture before the oceanfront leading to Komodo National Park. August 2003 |  |
| This shoe enjoyed a long-term home in The Domes, Milawaukee. 4 July 2003 |  |
In visiting the Minnesota Zoo, Marisol found her alter ego in the form of a mermaid. May 2003 |  |
| This was Marisol's first Easter egg painting, although only Jon's out-of-shell performance is shown here on the right. April 2003. |  |
On Brian's first trip to Costa Rica, he photographs an orb-weaving spider. January 2003 |  |
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This was Marisol's first pumpkin carving campaign in
October 2002. Jon's is the on on the lower right and Marisol did
the small one to its upper right.
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Jon and Marisol visit the Smithsonian Institution in Panama April 2002. This museum was once a Manuel Noriega bar. |
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