When do we become our children - what does your photo say?

I noticed a strange phenomenon on Facebook when following a link to the Mother Connection meet-up group. (Full disclosure I am not a mother, but I have one).
If you've used Facebook or any social networking site you know that you can create a profile image to help friends identify you or perhaps with you.

Here's what I noticed.
Of mothers attending an up-coming meeting, the majority (66%) had a picture of their child or children as their profile image, 27% had a picture of one parent and child(ren), 9% had an image of 2 parents and child(ren), 9% had no image.
Not one person attending the meeting had an image only of themselves.
This may not be too revealing until compared to those declining, maybe attending, or not responding. Of these 9% had a picture of their child only, 30% a child and 1 parent, 21% a child and 2 parents, 20% a parent alone, 7% a couple alone, 9% no image.

So a parent who profiles themselves with an image of their child or children is more likely to attend a meeting like this one. More than that, so is a parent who identifies themselves in an image with their child.

In conclusion, a scant 8 out of 54 mothers identified themselves with an image that included only themselves, while another 3 identified as a couple without children and 5 had no image. That means 10 see themselves in the image their children, 17 as themselves, plus their children, 11 as a couple and their children.

So when did mothers stop being individuals and identify as their children or a family unit? I dare say the same may apply to other groupings, fathers, grandparents, tattoo artists, musicians, hikers and bikers.
What does your image say about you... and tell others?

Volvo Ocean Racing In-harbor pro-am race day

Great day of sitting around watching others do all the work. No points towards the overall race, but a chance to see these amazing sailing craft in near full sail in a windy Boston Harbor.
All photos taken from shore using a 200mm telephoto lens on Nikon D300.

Who buried the Volvo Ocean Race Village?

Had to look twice at this photo from the Volvo Ocean Race Boston page.

At first I marveled a the beautiful reflections of buildings on the glass-like waters of the harbor. Have they ever been so still?

Then I marveled at the beautiful buildings and greenery on Fan Pier so sharp and crisp compared to the high rises in the background.

Why only yesterday when I visited the Volvo Racing Village, which shares the exact same real estate on Fan Pier, not only were the building not finished, only one of them had actually been started.

But worse was to come. Two huge building now loom over the newly constructed Institute of Contemporary Art, dwarfing it and eliminating all parking. Or maybe that isn't a snippet of the ICA roof poking up in the bottom left hand corner and it's gone with the push of an artist's digital erasure.

Sure would be nice to make some other buildings, such as the monstrous Government Center in downtown Boston, vanish instead.