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Bike, trike yard sale

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York Daily Record managing editor Jim McClure has said that there's not a road in York County that his photographers haven't driven. Maybe that's true. Paul Kuehnel and I have worked in York County for a long time, and sometimes the best way to find interesting photos is to drive through the county, watching for pictures. Reporters can find much of the information necessary for a story from behind a desk. For now at least, photographers and videographers still have to be in the field.

Sometimes, the most interesting photographs aren't connected to a big, headline grabbing story. Like this picture. Kathryn Heilman was just sitting in front of her grandparents' home in Manchester, trying to sell her old bikes and trikes and make a buck or two.

OK, it's not going to win the Pulitzer Prize. But it reminds us that we once probably did the same thing, or at least something similar when we were nine years old. And we're reminded that just sitting in front of the house, watching traffic buzz past with no worries about mortgages, gas prices or the stock market might not be all bad. And how can you not love that sweet, innocent face?

And isn't that better than looking at yet another fire, car crash or murderer's mugshot?

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