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The following winter snow fall pictures were taken in Moline IL. Visit my photography page for rest of my pictures on various categories. These pictures were taken around December 2009 from my old camera – Sony DSC-T50.

Now I own a professional DSLR (Canon EOS 5D Mark II). I will upload pictures from that camera on some more photography themse later.

2009 has come and gone. The year had overall mixed feelings in my personal life. Just mentioning few of the things that are noteworthy (and the ones I am remembering while writing this post).

On the positive side, I graduated from my Grad school in January and received my degree in June. I had my dad come visit me from Nepal during the summer. His few months of stay with us was great. Could not manage to take him to lots of place during his visit due to my work schedule but overall he should have been happy to the places I took him to.

I also completed my first year of marriage in 2009. During this year, I roamed around a few places, enjoyed few events. Had short trips to Fairfield, Peoria, Pella, Chicago, Boone Valley, Des Moines, Aurora and Detroit – visited some of these places multiple times. Tulip Festival, Quad Cities Air Show, Asian Heritage Festiva got lots of way to my camera.

Got a visa to Canada – but did not make use of it. Attended Gary Howe’s concert in Altoona. Organized/attended few of the functions, events for Quad Cities Nepali Community.

Purchased a professional camera of my dream – Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Added lots of content for Sanjaal Corps website mostly on weekends and on my leisure time and gave it a substantial existence over the web.

On the dark side of the moon, there were a few stuffs impacted in 2009. Although job survival on the US 2009 recession was achieved, financial crunching did exist. Few of my relatives passed away – may their souls rest in Peace: Govinda Dai’s mom and Kanchho Pusaju are there no more. One of our immediate neighbors back in Nepal ‘Sarkini Budhi’ also passed away. Although death is the only sure thing people have on earth, it feels bad to see people you know exist no more.