In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 each year and is in memory of all of the people who were killed in the September 11 attacks in 2001. A bill to make September 11 a national day of mourning was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on October 25, 2001 by Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) with 22 co-sponsors. The result was the resolution to proclaim September 11, 2002, as the first Patriot Day.

The second event that I attended was the annual IMSA race at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (CTMP). This famous track was previously known as Mosport.

Flashback: Recently, my wife and I were having lunch and I told her I was having trouble coming up with a new theme for Tuesday blog posts and she suggested “Tricky Tuesday” as a way to share some of the different tricks, tips and techniques I’ve used over the years...

Over the past decade, the first measurable Colorado snowfalls have occurred in October and November. But on September 3, 1961, the 4.2 inches of snow that fell in Denver was the earliest snowfall recorded since the Weather Bureau began keeping records in 1872.

Regular readers of the blog may be seeing some of these models for the first time and that’s my intention because another thing they have in common was how much they helped improve my photography