First 3 Weeks at the Modesto Bee

Jamestown, Calif., goold ole gold mining town (7/22/06).








Buffalo Bill's Tattoo Parlor - teens getting tats are the new craze (7/21/06).


Don's auto repair - fixing an air conditioner to prepare for the summer heat (7/21/06).


Las Casuelas mexican restaurant (7/20/06).


Hot weather feature (7/19/06).



Kimmy Osoria, 18, and Maddy Allen, 12, training for the Junior Olympics in Acrogymnastics (7/18/06).


Garage sale 7/15/06).




The original Batmobile (7/13/06).



Children at the Cougar Soccer summer camp (7/12)06).


Paul Liddy has been living at the Salvation Army in Modesto, Calif., for the past two months. Although he is the only one there now, the organization will be expanding its facilities so it can provide services to more people (7/11/06).


Adam Christianson lets his nine year-old son Kyle try on his hat after getting sworn in as the new Stanislaus County Sheriff (7/11/06).


Helitanker gathering water from a pond on a golf course in Diablo Grande to put on a nearby wildfire (7/10/06).

Best of Chile, Part 2

Most of these pictures come from a story I did on nuns living in a rural town called Toconao. Toconao is less than 30 minutes from the Bolivian border, and so there are lots of Bolivian influences. I went to a festival the town held for Saint Christopher at La Iglesia de San Lucas, and it was incredible to see Bolivian pagan traditions (such as the dancing and costumes) inside an Opus Dei Catholic church.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (really)