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A British Street performer in the beach town Piran, Slovenia.

U.S. Marine teaching Afghan police officer to fire an RPG.

A wall of an old Boston Harbor fort

Tractor marks in the ground

A desert flower.

Gondolier retiring his boat for the evening in la Piazza San Marco.

Yellow boat moored on pond

Seashell on the beach

Sunset at East Chop Pier

Picture of a model CHA senior apartment in the old days that was on display at the National Public Housing Museum exhibition at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery.

Farming under the Harvest Moon. My brother works late into the night under the harvest moon - how fitting!

The National Public Housing Museum's "History Coming Home" exhibition at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery.

My sister and nephews waiting for the wedding to start!

The National Public Housing Museum's "History Coming Home" exhibition at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery.

A exhibit of a Caucasian tenant with her kids in an Chicago Housing Authority public housing unit back in the day that was on display at the National Public Housing Museum's exhibition at the Chicago

Grandpa's Helper - The guys were sweeping the grain bin & my nephew Kyle insisted he wanted to go in to 'help'! So my dad took him and and he 'worked' sweeping with a shovel under grandpa's watchful e

My my 7-months-old niece caressing the finger of her 86-year-old, Alzheimer's stricken great-grandmother.

Inside the Tracy Arm Fjord of Alaska's inside passage. Taken not long after sunrise, the rain had just let up giving way to this gloomy and haunting scene.

Two Under Umbrella in Snow

Finding God at Chapman Lake

This Sun Bear, at Lincoln Park Zoo, woke up and turned around at the sound of my baby talk to it.

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Picture of a model CHA senior apartment in the old days that was on display at the National Public Housing Museum exhibition at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery.

Picture of a model CHA senior apartment in the old days that was on display at the National Public Housing Museum exhibition at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery.

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© Mary Piemonte.
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Date Taken:

01.2011

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