Fremont, California has claim to the largest Afghan American population in the USA. On the corner of Fremont Boulevard and Bonde Way sits a nondescript building filled with delicious foods from the home country. Inside is a Halal butcher, who prepares the freshest lamb in the region.

Located in an otherwise “boring” Bay Area suburb, this market is renowned by the local Afghan community and beyond for their fresh-baked Barbari bread. People have been known to travel over a hundred miles to stock up on a couple of dozen loaves (which are frozen and taken out when needed). They are stacked bare on shelves and often still warm while you place them in bags yourself. It’s $2 per 3 square foot oval that’s one-inch thick. Yes, you will be given a quizzical look if you order only one loaf. You’ll often run into long lines for this bread on weekends and before Muslim holidays. My wife and I were lucky enough to get introduced to this bread by our generous Afghan neighbors, who happened to knock on our door one evening with a pair of loaves and several pounds of "leftover" kabobs.

Lake Sabrina, just west of Bishop, California. It was a late afternoon in early October, and the next round of the season’s first snowfall had started to arrive. Inside the Chevy, there’s a couple enjoying the lake, the fall colors, and hot coffee from a Thermos.

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I’ve been acquiring more and more DSLR photography equipment over the past year or so, and apparently getting some decent shots these days. This provides me, a new dad, the ability to take thousands and thousands of photos of my super-awesome baby girl!

I often bring my camera to work, in the event there may be something cool to photograph, thus guaranteeing that I won’t have something cool to photograph. For example, I did not have my camera when rabbit-on-his-head-guy came to town to play his guitar.

Today was different. The brilliant design people at IMVU needed some shots of our pre-paid cards, and I had my camera. There were a bunch of outtakes, and so I saved them and played with one in Photoshop. With some more polish, I think this would make a cool promotional poster to hang in a retail store.

This means that I took pictures while being paid for my time. Technically this makes me a pro, right?

(Aaaaand… don’t forget, you can purchase IMVU Prepaid Cards at your nearest Best Buy, Target, Seven-Eleven, Speedway, and Blockbuster!)