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<title>St Thomas: Flowers</title>
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<pubdate>2005-05-19T07:35:39-04:00</pubdate>
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<firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname>
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<copyright><year>2005</year><holder>Norman Walsh</holder></copyright>
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<para>A small selection of flower photographs from our recent vacation in
St. Thomas, USVI.</para>
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<para xml:id='p1'>There are lots of flowers in bloom on St. Thomas. That's always
a true statement. There are flowers in the Virgin Islands that bloom
<emphasis>all year long</emphasis>: a strange concept to us
New Englander's.</para>

<para xml:id='p2'>I set out one afternoon with a mind to photograph all of the
different kinds of flowers that I could find within a short walk of
the beach. I burned through two batteries in my camera and three
compact flash cards before I decided I was just too damn hot and tired
to continue. And that's just on one day in May!</para>

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<para xml:id='p3'>There are a great many more photos like this in
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndw/sets/352296/">St Thomas:
Flowers, May 2005</link>
at <link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</link>.</para>

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