
A story about front yard gardens which featured the owners in the space.

People taking the land lessons before heading out into the ocean at Zed's Surfing School located on the island nation of Barbados

A young boy showing off his road tennis skills at a park in Barbados.

A native American at the Pendleton Round-up, a rodeo held annually in the city of Pendleton, Oregon. Pictured here is "Kermit," named for the intricate beadwork done on his necklace depicting the muppet character.

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A nun descending the staircase of the Saint Peter and Paul Church in North Beach, San Francisco.

The daughter of Peggy Seltzer, aka Margaret B. Jones, author of the controversial memoir, "Love and Consequences."

Two girls climb a tree in Jerico Beach Park in Vancouver, British Columbia

Four surfers on the quarter mile path to the beach at Oswald West State Park on the Oregon Coast, a popular beginner surf break in Oregon.

Chef Gabriel Rucker at his restaurant Le Pigeon in Portland, Oregon

Chef and owner Andy Ricker at Pok Pok Restaurant in Portland, Oregon

A woman waits for a friend at the upstairs bar at Marvin, a restaurant dedicated to Marvin Gaye located in the U Street district.

A waiter at Clyde Common restaurant located in the Ace Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon serves up appetizers including spiced popcorn at happy hour

Members of the Bondi Icebergs at the famed Bondi Swimming Club in Sydney, Australia.

A sampan driver taking a tour group up the Lesser Three Gorges in the Yangtze Three Gorges.

Tres Shannon, one of the co-owners of Voodoo Doughnut, Too! located in NE Portland, Oregon features unusual doughnuts.

Friday Purington at the "Allister Plot," one of fifty five gardens in the Portland Metro area that The Southeast Urban Agricultural Cooperative oversees.


Clyde Common's restaurant bartender, Jeffery Morgenthaler, in Portland, Oregon, serving up a barrel-aged Negroni cocktails

A performer on Kaanapali Beach, Maui, HI

Hinaleimoana Wong Kalu, a kumu hula in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii for Smithsonian Magazine

Cocktail hour at the P.O.V. rooftop bar at the W Hotel in Washington DC affords views of the the Washington Monument and the White House.

A family showing off the functionality of their front yard garden with the son doing a skateboard jump over the hedge

Jed Lazar, owner of Soupcycle, delivering soup in SE Portland, Oregon

Gianaclis Caldwell of Pholia Farm in Rogue River Oregon takes the herd of Nigerian Dwarf Goats out to forage in the woods on the property of their farm.

One of the groomsmen from the Garrison Savannah in Barbados poses with two of the thoroughbred horses he brings down to the ocean for a morning bath and swim.

A waitress at the San Francisco restaurant NOPA.

A happy customer at the restaurant Spruce Restaurant in Laurel Heights, San Francisco

Dahlia pickers with the first of the morning harvest at Swan Island Dahlias in Canby, Oregon