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Wow, what a story.

Mr. Yamaguchi, as a 29-year-old engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945. He was getting off a streetcar when the “Little Boy” device detonated above Hiroshima.

Mr. Yamaguchi said he was less than 2 miles away from ground zero. His eardrums were ruptured and his upper torso was burned by the blast, which destroyed most of the city’s buildings and killed 80,000 people.

Mr. Yamaguchi spent the night in a Hiroshima bomb shelter and returned to his hometown of Nagasaki the following day, according to interviews he gave over the years. The second bomb, known as “Fat Man,” was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, killing 70,000 people there.

Mr. Yamaguchi was in his Nagasaki office, telling his boss about the Hiroshima blast, when “suddenly the same white light filled the room,” he said in an interview last March with The Independent newspaper.

“I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima,” he said.

Theo holding an ice block:

For some reason Theo was carrying miscellaneous ice blocks for most of our trip to Smithville NJ

Trip around the farm.

Two guys who did a real-time, nine day road trip across country via Google Streetview. and uSTream. Insane but insanely obsessive too. Via NYTimes.com.

I got details for Quaker picnic and outing at the Cape May Zoo at the end of this month:

Salem Quarter has rented Cape May Zoo Shelter C for the day of August 30.  We plan to start arriving shortly after 11:00 am after worship at Seaville Meeting.  Others are welcome to join us.  Bring a picnic lunch.  The zoo closes about 5:00.  There is no entrance fee, although they do welcome donations.  The zoo is shady, so can be comfortable.  The animals seem well cared for.

Zoo on Google Maps

Francis rides the merry-go-round. From the Hammonton FACES group’s trip to Sesame Place, more pictures here.

Theo warns off the cookie monster: A character lunch at Sesame Place brought out all the furry monsters. From the Hammonton FACES group’s trip to Sesame Place, more pictures here.

Julie & Theo ride the merry-go-round. From the Hammonton FACES group’s trip to Sesame Place, more pictures here.

Friends, as a religious group, seem to be more active than a lot of groups. I know that Friends at NCYM-C are involved in many causes - Earth care, peacemaking, social concerns. The intentionality…

More scenes from the Zoo trip:

Theo, Agnes and C at the Philadelphia Zoo

More scenes from the Zoo trip:

Philadelphia Zoo

More scenes from the Zoo trip:

Philadelphia Zoo

More scenes from the Zoo trip:

Philadelphia Zoo

More scenes from the Zoo trip:

Philadelphia Zoo

More scenes from the Zoo trip:

Philadelphia Zoo