Nader Khouri

Life As It Is

Single images to remind you of the uniqueness of every moment.

An acrobat flies through the air during the song "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" during a preview performance of "LOVE", a show about the Beatles performed by Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas.
   
Second from left, Terell Davis, 9, cools off with other kids in his neighborhood in Pittsburg.
   
At right, Edward Bucio, 19, and his little brother, Danny Bucio, 13, sand-off the rust and oil around the engine of Edward's 1963 Chevy Impala in front of their home in Antioch.
     
  
One of Arnold Schwarzenegger's security guards keeps supporters away from one of Arnold's campaign buses after a town-hall meeting in Santa Clarita as Schwarzenegger toured the state campaigning for the recall election.
   
Contra Costa County firefighter Joaquin Avila searches for a shut-off valve after a fire hydrant burst near Applebee's in Antioch.
   
Peggy Dilley of Los Angeles holds up an anti-war sign as celebrities arrive before the Academy Awards a half-block from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles just days after the beginning of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
     
  
Counselors and campers draw a crowd as they prepare to film a scene of a commercial at Camp Wonder in Livermore. The commercial was one of many different activities the campers participated in during the day. The camp, organized by the Children with Skin Disease Foundation, offers a weeklong getaway for children with skin diseases ranging from mild to very severe.
   
Sporting an outfit made of soap Molly Lambert, 19, plays in the fountain outside Il Fornaio after an unknown person had filled it with dish soap in Walnut Creek.
  
Baby queen Summer Morris, 5, shows signs of fatigue during a meal after walking in the Holy Ghost Festival Parade in Oakley.
     
  
From top, Karsen McCloud, 11, and her mother, Karmen McCloud, hold on tight as they ride the Honolulu Halfpipe at Waterworld USA.
  
A horse grazes on a hill amidst mustard plants in Martinez.
   
A dragonfly lands on a boy's hand.
     
  
Farmworkers tend to newly planted tomato plants at Simoni and Masoni Farm in Byron.
   
Rafael Olaguez of Durango Bulldozing forces branches into a pile as he burns 110 acres of pear and apple trees at Airdrome Orchards in Brentwood. The owner of the ranch is quitting the pear and apple business because maintaining the crops no longer became economical.
   
Bill Whitmire, left, and his wife Kathleen Whitmire, right, comfort their daughter, Trista Whitmire, after the detached apartment and garage Trista was living in burned with her cat and two chinchillas inside at the family's home in Brentwood.
     
  
"The August-to-October mating season helps explain the annual increase in deer fatalities," says John Krause, a state Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist. As bucks chase does from the hills it means disaster on Bay Area roads. September's count was 155, compared to 20 in February. A doe lies dead on Interstate 680 just before being picked up by a Caltrans worker at the Diablo Road on-ramp in Danville. A buck suffered the same fate on the other side of the freeway, but he was hit by a car in the fast lane.
  
Father Filiberto Barrera recites the Rosary during a vigil at St. Cornelius Church in Richmond. Father Barrera held the vigil at night to mark the same time one month prior that an arsonist set the altar and Nativity scene on fire. Barrera noted that they as a church need to forgive the man who started the fire.
   
Amidst the paving and rolling machines Carone & Sons, Inc. employee David Herrera uses a shovel to fine-tune the freshly paved road during a paving project in Antioch.
     
  
160-pound wrestler Zack Showaker practices with his coach, Jeff Rosenbaum, in preparation for the NCS championships at Liberty High School in Brentwood.
   
Baron Davis' neice Tylar Hodoh, 3, dribbles a basketball outside the home where the L.A. Clippers guard was raised by his grandmother in South Central Los Angeles.
   
SWAT team members run for cover as they deliver Little Caesar's pizza to other SWAT team members during a long standoff with a man in a house who was wanted on a warrant in Antioch.
     
  
Sophomore Richard Salaverria yawns during the English portion of the California High School Exit Exam at Clayton Valley High School in Concord.
  
Sophomore Jerry Wachtler, left, shares a cigarette with classmates in the boys bathroom at Clayton Valley High School in Concord. Smoking on campus is not allowed, but students often have their friends stand lookout outside the bathroom.
   
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