A lot of New Yorkers don’t usually have any views of the sky or horizons.  We are surrounded by buildings and are always on the go, its kind of hard to even have the time to ’stop and smell the roses’ of some of nature’s marvels.  Recently on June 26,2009, New York City had an extraordinary looking cloud formation called Mammatus Clouds.  These amazing clouds look as if they were brought in from another planets atmosphere.

A little info about Mammatus clouds (a name derived from the Latin word for breast).  These clouds form from thunder clouds and have properties which are rarely seen.  They have a bobbley downward  protrusion that hold usually as little as 5 minutes and can rarely be seen lasting as long as an hour.  They are produced entirely from water or a mixture of ice and water, they form an average of about once a year and are seen dramatically when the sun is at a low angle.

If you haven’t seen anything like this, then keep one eye in the sky and the next time you might witness some of these other worldy cloud formations.

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we just finished a nice little project with our friends at segal savad (with whom we’ve done the tygris financial website). this site is sponsored by The Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions and Delta airlines in a joint venture with KLM, and AirFrance. we built it on the wordpress platform from designs supplied by segal savad. it contains a blog feature and flash movies for a bit of interactivity.

although the micro site is not intended for a purely gay travel audience, the play on words refers to the attitude of the people in this grand european city. so whether you’re actually going to amsterdam for the gay pride 2009 festivities or just happy cause you’ll be hitting all the coffee shops and the red light district, there’s plenty of info on the site to make sure you’ll have a good time.

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i first mentioned my wife gina’s grand aunt, sister mary loyola (adelaide engel) last year in this post. well another year has past and today aunt ade turns 101 years old. pictured above (left to right) are fran iannozzi (my mother-in-law), aunt ade, sophia (my daughter) and gina. i’ve been shooting portraits of the ladies in egan lineage for 4 years. it’s amazing to see the progression. i’ll have to dig up the earliest photo from my archives and append this post.

aunt ade is a treasure and we’re incredibly blessed to have her in our lives. so aunt ade, we wish you the best and hope to celebrate your birthdays for many more years. as a parting note, one of her her saying: “The Present is a present”. talk about words to live by, for a long time.