CUTLINE: Goffstown’s Nick Zaricki, left, uses a Russian arm technique to gain wrist control on his Hollis/Brookline opponent Zach Migneault while the referee looks on Feb. 10 at Goffstown. Zaricki would win by minor decision 3-0 over Migneault.
TECH SPECS: f/2.8, 1/500, 34mm, ISO 1000
THOUGHTS: One that slipped by last month enjoy!

Every spring I look forward to the first flowers emerging up through the leaves coating our perennial gardens. This flatbush Crocus plant pierced right through the thick oak leaves covering it - a sign that I better get out there soon and remove the leaves from the bark mulch below.

While I was waiting to photograph Gordon Webster, a former personal bagpiper for Queen Elizabeth at the New Hampshire School of Scottish Arts, I noticed these two dancers practicing something out of the ordinary - a Scottish Highland Sword Dance. All I could think of was “ouch!”

Whose arm is that, and what’s it doing there?

Here’s a couple photos that didn’t make it into today’s newspaper from the clowning class at Saint Christopher School in Nashua.

I completely agree with Shawn and love his site.

After the interview, Ryan’s brother, Liam proudly set his camera on the dining room table in front of me. I thought perhaps he was comparing the size of my company Canon Mark III to his plastic point and shoot toy. What neat little eyeballs it has on the top. I don’t have those on mine. And it talks too. How cool!

You can take a pig out of the barnyard, and call it your pet, but you cannot take the barnyard out of the pig and call it clean.