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May 12, 2004 Travis Long
Sierra Almond, 6, lures potential customers driving on Delway Street to a yard sale at her grandmother's house in Mordecai during the Raleigh neighborhood's annual yard sale day. "Sometimes when you have your own garage sale, it's a little bit of a lone venture. It's kind of entertaining that the neighborhood gets involved. It puts a little more fun in the day," said Almond's grandmother Betty Jones. "It's what we do every spring. We kind of purge."
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Takaaki Iwabu
"No Ordinary Day" is a visual diary of the events, both large and small, that serve as milestones in people's lives. It debuted on March 24, 2002 and concluded on Aug. 29, 2007. We hope you continue to enjoy looking at our archive of “No Ordinary Day” images.


Travis Long
The column is a celebration of the struggles, triumphs and tears we experience as we travel from birth to death. Our goal was to document moments in time that might otherwise be missed; sometimes it's the tiniest incident in one's life that has the most profound effect. When on assignment for the column, we looked for that one photo that tells a whole story. Some are the result of a found moment we came across on our daily assignments or our daily existence. For others, we thought of a specific event, like a first haircut or last dance, and sought out a subject who might illustrate the idea.

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