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Yesterday, about 70 fire apparatus paraded down a three-mile stretch of a state highway. The local high school’s marching band led the way, and people in the area were excited. As with many such assignments, I made sure to get a few photos of the main event (the parade) and then focused my attention on the more interesting aspect, i.e., the people who were watching.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Stacy Johnson and her daughter Savannah, 8, watch from their front yard as the parade approaches on Hanover Street near the Nashville Volunteer Fire Company station on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011.

I also photographed the most precious great-great-grandmother I’ve ever met. She’s also the only great-great-grandmother I’ve ever met. Almost all five generations of her family were represented on her son’s porch that day as the parade passed them by, which I thought was just incredible.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Mary Jane Hoff, 87, coos at her 9-month-old great-great-granddaughter Hailey Kime, held by her son Leroy Hoff, before the parade passed in front of Leroy's porch on Hanover Street on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011.

Mary Jane was wonderful, and so was her entire family. I’m glad I had the opportunity to meet them, if only for the time that passed as we waited for the parade to arrive and as the parade went by.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Mary Jane Hoff, 87 of Jackson Township, takes a picture of the parade as it passes her son Leroy's house on Hanover Road on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011.

The Hoff family’s house wasn’t the only one I visited as the parade inched by. The Johnsons, just a few doors down, were watching, too. (Stacy and Savannah Johnson are featured in the first photo in this post.)

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Ashton Johnson, 3, sucks on the lollipop that was given to him by parade participants as he sits on his front porch and watches the parade pass on Hanover Road on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011.

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A reporter and I went to York’s first gay pride festival last week.

Once I strolled the circuit a few times and he talked to some of the organizers, we conferred and agreed that although the three-day event included a(n in)famous deejay and a drag show, we’d focus on the street festival itself. The nighttime events would be flashier and a lot more visual, but the organizers had talked about raising awareness and making the festival fun and open to all members of the public. People were bringing their children and dogs as if it were any other festival.

So, the festival it was.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Holding her stuffed puppy, Anastasia Bartleson, 3 of Manchester Township, wears a pink "I Stand With Planned Parenthood" sticker on her shirt at the York Pride 2011 street festival on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in the parking lot of Club XS. Bartleson's mother Lindsay recalled that Anastasia once said, on her own, that it's "not fair" that some people think that a gay couple who are family friends aren't "able to love each other."

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. (Left to right) Gage Donagher, 8 of West York borough, and his brother Julian, 6, blow bubbles at the York Pride 2011 street festival as their youngest brother Lukas, 4, tries to get their attention on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in the parking lot of Club XS.

The two photos above didn’t run in the paper or online — check out the article to see which ones did — but I’m sharing these because I think each picture is humorous in its own right.

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One day last week, I spent three hours in a boat. On a lake. On a beautiful day.

Life can be so hard sometimes.

I’d arrived at the Outcast Bass Club’s Thursday Night Lunker Tournament at Lake Marburg just in time to meet with the organizer and have him arrange for me to go out on a boat with two participants. Every Thursday afternoon/evening, participants get to fish on the lake from 5:30 to 8:30 and bring back their biggest catch to be weighed. Whoever brings in the biggest fish for that day wins 1st Lunker, and participants’ weekly tallies will be totaled at the end of the season for cash and other prizes.

So last Thursday, I hung out with Jason and Ryan, who are brothers-in-law, as they fished.

The shadow of Jason Martin, of Reading Township in Adams County, is cast on his brother-in-law Ryan Miller of Hanover as the two fish for bass from the boat they share on Lake Marburg in Codorus State Park on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011.

Jason and Ryan were the leaders in the tournament so far, the organizer told me before he added that I should cut their lines if they caught anything. Each man caught a fish that night…

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Jason Martin of Reading Township in Adams County removes his hook and lure from a largemouth bass he caught in Lake Marburg in Codorus State Park on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011.

…but each bass was just shy of the 15-inch minimum requirement for a fish to be weighed at the end of the night.

Earlier in the afternoon, Jason asked when I’d last gone fishing. I described to him an old photo of my first and last fishing expedition, which took place off a dock in Galveston, Texas. Here’s the photo, which aptly summarizes my brief encounter with a live fish:

Circa 1992 or 1993.

Jason laughed and said that, once they caught a fish, they’d make me hold it before they put it in their aerated tank or tossed it back into the lake. I’m not especially squeamish — it’s just that fish are really bizarre creatures — but I was relieved that, in their hurry to measure the fish and get them back into the lake, we all forgot about Jason’s promise each time they caught a fish.

As we headed back to the landing just before 8:30 p.m., the men asked me what I thought. Most girls and women, they said, find fishing to be exceedingly boring.

Nah, I said, it was relaxing. There are far worse ways to spend three hours than to be on a boat. On a lake. On a beautiful day.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Jason Martin of Reading Township in Adams County lowers his rod after casting out his line near the end of the evening at Lake Marburg in Codorus State Park on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011.

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A few days ago, I went to a picnic in the park. It wasn’t anything too unusual. All the fixings for burgers and hot dogs were set out on the pavilion tables. A few kids were running around while the adults chatted and swatted yellowjackets away as they waited for the charcoal to get hot enough.

The only reason I was at this picnic was this: Almost every adult had a handgun in plain sight.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. With his Colt 1991-A1 pistol in his holster, Matt Dubois of York Township grills burgers for those who attended the open-carry picnic on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, at Glen Rock Community Park in Shrewsbury Township. About a dozen individuals gathered for the picnic with their open-carry firearms.

All the adults said they support and respect open-carry laws, and all were members of a firearm owners association and participate in the organization’s online forum, which is how they decided to have an inaugural picnic so they could all meet each other. If the comments in Teresa’s article are any indication, there’ll probably be a few more such gatherings in the future.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Elizabeth and James Parson of Windsor Township wait for more people to arrive at the open-carry picnic at Glen Rock Community Park on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, in Windsor Township. The Parsons and about a dozen other people who showed up are all members of the Pennsylvania Firearms Owners Association and participate in the association's online discussion forum.

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Having photographed more York Revolution baseball games than probably any other single team*, I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of shooting baseball.

* No, the “Missouri Tigers” — football, mens basketball, womens basketball, etc., as a collective whole — do not count.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Lancaster Barnstormers second baseman Gilberto Mejia safely steals second base as York Revolution second baseman Ramon Castro misses the ball in the third inning on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2011, at Sovereign Bank Stadium. Mejia reached third base safely in the same play.

Also, thank goodness for high resolution.

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About a month ago, a sports writer and I followed a local biologist as he chased down a young fugitive falcon. This was before the heat waves blistered their way across the county, and it was a beautiful evening in rural York County as we watched and listened to Bruce Fortman while he banded the kestrel fledglings he hopes to track.

This is what I call “the wizard picture” — because he really does seem like a wizard.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Biologist Bruce Fortman of New Freedom weighs a male kestrel chick in his truck bed before banding the chick's leg on Thursday, July 7, 2011, in Springfield Township. Biologist Bruce Fortman, of New Freedom, has been studying migration patterns and population levels of kestrel falcons since 1998. To that end, he is maintaining 23 nest boxes this year -- 21 of which are in York County and 2 of which are in Maryland -- and banding kestrel chicks' legs to keep track of their movements.

And don’t be fooled by these little birds. They may be cute, and they’re the smallest falcons, but their talons are something you don’t want digging into your skin and muscle.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Biologist Bruce Fortman of New Freedom bands the leg of a barely month-old female kestrel fledgling on Thursday, July 7, 2011, in Springfield Township.

Be sure to check out Frank’s article, as well as my video, about Fortman’s efforts to track these birds’ movements.

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Here are two of the shots I managed to get from yesterday’s Revolution game before I had to leave for another assignment. First, a feature:

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. York Revolution team manager Andy Etchebarren tells catcher Octavio Martinez to have a good night after some fans wished Martinez a happy 32nd birthday before the Revolution began playing against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs on Saturday, July 30, 2011, at Sovereign Bank Stadium.

Next, my first successful shot of a(n unsuccessful) pickoff attempt:

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. York Revolution left fielder James Shanks briefly returns to first base just as Southern Maryland Blue Crabs first baseman Joe Jiannetti misses his catch in a pickoff attempt in the second inning on Saturday, July 30, 2011, at Sovereign Bank Stadium. Shanks turned around and made it safely to second base.

(Note: The contrast in the second photo is pretty much straight out of camera. I tried to tone it down a little for the blog. If you view it on the paper’s website, it looks more “normal” because our browser tends to desaturate our images anyway.)

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For the first time ever, I left a baseball game in the middle of the third inning yesterday.

It was for a semi-last-minute assignment during which a reporter and I listened to a young man recount how he tried to save a man from drowning — and instead saved his female companion.

The drowning, which happened on the same day as the barn collapse, was the first drowning in Lake Marburg in Codorus State Park since 2008.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Sitting in his family's living room, Kyle Mahorney of York Township describes on Saturday, July 30, 2011, how he tried to save Brian Krumrine, Jr., and instead saved his female companion, Kate, from drowning in Lake Marburg in Codorus State Park on Friday, July 29, 2011. Mahorney said Kate screamed that Krumrine, who was struggling in the water, had let go of her foot right as Mahorney had swum up to them. After diving twice trying to find Krumrine, Mahorney took Kate to the shore. Mahorney said that, had he arrived 30 seconds earlier, he thinks he could have rescued Krumrine. He plans to attend Krumrine's funeral.

Be sure to read Rebecca’s heartbreaking article based on Kyle’s account of the tragedy.

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Nine cows were killed yesterday — and others were trapped — when 60,000 pounds of hay fell through the loft floor above them.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. The loft floor of a barn belonging to the Petersheim family in Lower Chanceford Township collapsed while people were loading hay bales into the loft on Friday, July 29, 2011. The floor and hay collapsed onto the Petersheims' cows on the ground level of the barn, and killed nine cows, according to Ben Petersheim. Petersheim also said there were about 1,500 bales of hay in the barn at the time, each weighing about 40 pounds.

Jeff’s reaction when I told him: “Why couldn’t the cows just have eaten their way out?

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Go to a club (with good air conditioning). Just make sure you’re wearing the right thing.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Holding hands, Jimmy Torres of Allentown and Kaitlin Kolva of Halifax in Dauphin County enter the dance floor on Saturday, July 23, 2011, at Club XS in North York borough. Club XS in North York borough enforces a dress code that prohibits bandanas, sunglasses and saggy, baggy pants, among other items.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Johnathan Krug of Columbia in Lancaster County and Mike Shomody of Elizabethtown in Lancaster County converse on Saturday, July 23, 2011, at Club XS.

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Go to a park and doze off while listening to jazz… with some grass on your eyelid.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Tuckered out after running around at a block party, Antron Mitchell, 10 of York, sleeps through the first set of jazz music performed by Jeff Stabley & Band on Saturday, July 23, 2011, at Foundry Park. About three dozen people came to the park to listen to the band perform as part of Downtown Inc.'s SPLASH! Concert Series.

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Go to summer camp, play in bumper boats and get a bucket of water dumped on you by your camp counselor.

This photo didn’t run:

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Erin McBrairty, 12 of Springettsbury Township, and Amelia Strayer, 11 of Springettsbury Township, scream in anticipation as their Summer Adventure Camp counselor Marcy Renshaw throws a bucket of water on them in the bumper boat pool in Roundtop Mountain Resort's Mountain Adventure area on Thursday, July 14, 2011.

This photo did:

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Erin McBrairty, 12 of Springettsbury Township, and Amelia Strayer, 11 of Springettsbury Township, duck away as their Summer Adventure Camp counselor Marcy Renshaw throws a bucket of water on them in the bumper boat pool in Roundtop Mountain Resort's Mountain Adventure area on Thursday, July 14, 2011.

Which would you have chosen?

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Okay, so it’s no longer as hot out there… but I was in New York City for the past three days and still have a few heat/summer photos to share. So the series lives on!

Go eat a popsicle. But only after you’ve dug through your camp counselor’s backpack, found a permanent marker and drawn mustaches on your friends’ faces.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record. Zach Cline, 10 of Mechanicsburg, sits atop a barricade and eats his popsicle as he and other Summer Adventure Camp participants wait their turn to go down the slope in the H2 OGO ball at Roundtop Mountain Resort's Mountain Adventure area on Thursday, July 14, 2011. Cline's "mustache" is the result of his and other campers' finding a permanent marker in their counselor's backpack. Roundtop Mountain Resort is offering its fourth year of five-day Summer Adventure Camps, during which kids ranging in age from 8 to 15 participate in activities including fishing, kayaking, Frisbee golf and high ropes.

The above photo is one of a few that ran in print. Here’s another photo — of the same kid in the same situation — that I like but that I knew was maybe too messy/layered/hard-to-read to run:

© 2011 by The York Daily Record.

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Drink water. And dance. And stay cool.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record. Deshon Marine, Jr., 12, far right, watches as his uncle Dontavien Marine of York, center, dances along with his niece Victoria Hartman, 13 of Baltimore, right, while watching the movie "Hairspray" in the cooling center hosted by Christ Lutheran Church on Saturday, July 23, 2011. Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania operated the cooling center on Saturday, with Help Center director Joe Studivant on-site with his family to keep the fellowship hall open for anybody who needed to cool off, drink cold bottled water or have a freeze pop.

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Go watch some Shakespeare… under the shade of some trees.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Performing as the character Beatrice, Theresa Strange of New Freedom eavesdrops on a conversation between Theresa Bova of Manchester Township, performing as Ursula, and Sarah Tyler of New Freedom, performing as Hero, in a final dress rehearsal of William Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" on Saturday, July 16, 2011, in a fellow cast member's backyard in Spring Garden Township. DreamWrights Youth & Family Theatre is producing Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" for Theatre Under The Trees, a series of free shows throughout York County every Friday from June 22 to July 30. The cast began its dress rehearsals on Saturday, July 16, 2011, in a cast member's backyard, and rehearsed in a different backyard every day to help the performers get used to acting outside in different locations.

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If you had to be a cow in this heat… you’d want to be one of these cows.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Cows gather toward the center of Leroy and Brenda Walker's barn to eat and get cooled off on Friday, July 22, 2011, at Walk-Le Holsteins farm in Paradise Township. The Walkers' 20,700-square foot barn features a misting system, as well as 36 fans that keep air moving at about 6 miles per hour. Leroy Walker said the barn has made a difference in the cows' comfort and milk production. "In our old barn, we might have lost 2 gallons a day" per cow, Walker said.

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Go get a snow cone… courtesy of the sun.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Chilly Dilly's Sun Sno employee Jena Prats waits for customers on Saturday, July 2, 2011, in the Sun Sno stand in the Shurfine parking lot in York Township. Saturday was Prats' first day on the job. Chilly Dilly's frozen treats owner Dylan Bauer has opened two solar-powered snow cone stands, one in York Township and one in Spring Grove. The stands' cash registers, lights and ice shaver are powered entirely by solar panels that sit atop the roofs.

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After shooting a particular assignment yesterday, I’ve realized I should get a Spanish textbook and brush up on some intermediate vocabulary and grammar. I was making pictures at the only supermarket in York City — which had just had its grand opening in the morning — and had to speak or know some amount of Spanish to communicate with the people in my pictures.

Here’s what ran on today’s front page:

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Cristian Morales, 11 of York, takes green bananas from his grandmother Miriam Rivera as he and his cousin Mairim Velez, 9, right, shop at C-Town Supermarkets on its opening day on Friday, July 11, 2011.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Noel Fernando packages meat behind the meat counter at C-Town Supermarkets on the store's grand opening day on Friday, July 15, 2011. The store features the meat counter, a seafood counter and a deli counter, as well as produce and a small bakery.

And here’s a photo that didn’t run / that I didn’t turn in, but I like it anyway:

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Mairim Velez, 9 of York, reaches for plastic produce bags in the produce section of C-Town Supermarkets on its opening day on Friday, July 15, 2011.

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Apparently, wearing feathers in your hair is a big thing now. I feel like there’s a(n old) song about this, but all I can think of is “Ribbons Down My Back” from the musical Hello Dolly!

Anyway. Feathers. Not big plumes, but long, thin rooster tail feathers.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. With three feathers already clamped to her hair, Hannah Bosley, 16 of Spring Garden Township, waits for Michael Alan Salon & Day Spa stylist Corinne Lentz to add two additional feathers on Friday, July 8, 2011. The feathers are inserted into a small metal bead and clamped around a few strands of hair. The feather extensions can stay in a client's hair for 2-4 months and can be worn in the shower and pool, and can have hair product applied to them.

If you read the article (which you should anyway — Lauren seems to have had fun writing it), you’ll find out why this feather trend is giving fly fishermen a run for their money.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Hannah Bosley, 16 of Spring Garden Township, admires her new feather extensions in the mirror before stylist Corinne Lentz clamps two more feathers into her hair on Friday, July 8, 2011, at Michael Alan Salon & Day Spa. Bosley said as far as she knows, she is the first girl in York Suburban High School and among her friends to get feather hair extensions, and is excited for her friends to notice.

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I may have had a raging headache — induced by lack of both sleep and food — but I’ll be damned if I didn’t zip up my mansuit (Philmont reference) and do my best to make pictures at the 2011 Atlantic League All-Star Game on Wednesday.

Just a few shots from the day:

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Fans walk over York Revolution manager Andy Etchebarren's star as they enter Sovereign Bank Stadium via the main entrance on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, before the 2011 Atlantic League All-Star Game. Etchebarren managed the Freedom Division team for the All-Star Game as well.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Recent York Catholic graduate Alex Tucci warms up before going up to bat for his turn in the home run derby on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at Sovereign Bank Stadium before the 2011 Atlantic League All-Star Game. Each team in the home run derby included one recent York County high school graduate, one York County townball player and one Atlantic League player. Tucci, who made two fair homeruns and hit a foul ball over the fence, was the only recent graduate to hit out of the field.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. York Revolution outfielder Val Majewski returns to the Freedom Division dugout after hitting a homerun in the fourth inning and scoring the first point in the 2011 Atlantic League All-Star Game on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at Sovereign Bank Stadium.

This photo was the main art for today’s front page:

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. York Revolution pitcher Corey Thurman and third baseman Vince Harrison dance on the track during the seventh inning of the 2011 Atlantic League All-Star Game on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at Sovereign Bank Stadium.

I was editing and transmitting photos when the fireworks show began, and had no intention to make pictures of the show. Once it began, though, I couldn’t resist leaving my computer and going to the front of the media room with my camera. I didn’t have a tripod, and was basically holding my camera steady on the open window ledge, but hey — it worked.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A fireworks show concluded the night for the 8,053 fans who came to the 2011 Atlantic League All-Star Game on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at Sovereign Bank Stadium.

Check out more photos, and complete coverage.

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