Relax from your stressful life with some calming images of nature... I grabbed these photos and short video in our backyard this past Saturday morning. The deer hung around for over three hours and it was mildly exciting to get the video footage (I was shaking a bit). And this is in the city, too! (well, 4.5 miles from downtown Minneapolis).

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Happy 2006 to you all! Great friends, great food and great times were had over the holidays and I found a little chunk of time to slap together this short video piece of a mountain bike race I shot back in October of 2005 at Murphy-Hanrehan Park (part of the awesome Three Rivers Park District).
The premise was a Halloween bike race (The Grim Racer) with costumes and silliness but either these people were too hard-core in racing or the wind drag of most costumes was simply too great and only a handful of racers dressed up. The weather and location were great, however, and while this doesn't have much of a story to it (I was unable to shoot the race finish), I hope you'll enjoy the fall biking scenery (needs latest version of Quicktime).