SFGate: Day in Pictures
Friday, Jun. 22, 2012
We don't think he's rabid, but ... Eight-year-old Kaydon Sjodin gets a nibble from a baby raccoon at the West Coast Game Park Safari in Bandon, Ore.
Swift relief: With temperatures soaring into the upper 90s, few places in Albany, N.Y., are as popular as the Lower Falls of the Swift River.
Oxygen or ... laughing gas?! Capt. Albert Acostaire feeds oxygen to Norma Arbotast's Magic after rescuing the cat from a house fire in Garden Grove, Calif. Evidently, this was Magic's first experience with an inhaler mask.
Beach head established: Eleven-year-old Andrey Krivetc allows himself to be buried neck deep in the sand of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. Fortunately they dug him out before the tide came in.
This fashion plate at Royal Ascot Ladies Day is about to lose her breakfast in Ascot, England.
Out-of-the-pouch excursions make Mom a little jumpy: A red-necked wallaby hovers over her albino joey at the Duisburg (Germany) Zoo.
Surrender or we shoot the kid: Blue flower tank gets the drop on copper flower tank near the "Mother of the Fatherland" monument in Kiev.
This cubbyhole is occupied: Modular bookshelves offer an attractive way to store all sorts of things, even 2-year-olds like Madi Grace. Madi was taking a break from her grueling schedule at First United Methodist Church day care in Sevierville, Tenn.
Mind if I join you? A window washer intrudes upon breakfast on the 23rd floor of a hotel in Ningbo, China.
Florida fresh-squeezed: LeBron James hugs Dwyane Wade in the final moments of Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Miami won, 121-106, to win the championship.
Can we keep her, Mom? Hey, Indi and Cali Stokes of Hillsboro, Ore. - Coco the cougar cub would like to go home with you. Can you ask your parents? (West Coast Game Park Safari in Bandon, Ore.)
Czech me out! A face-painting Czech fan is all smiles before the Euro 2012 quarterfinal match between Czech Republic and Portugal in Warsaw. No doubt he was less exuberant after Ronaldo's late header lifted Portugal to a 1-0 victory.
Light in the sky: In Poznan, Poland, thousands of lanterns are released to mark the shortest night of the year.
*Bonk!* Hey, watch where you're going: Danuta head-butts Daria in their pool at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany.
Please, some more? Vivian looks up beseechingly at senior zoo keeper Allison Jungheim, controller of the fish bucket at Como Park Zoo in St. Paul. Meanwhile zoo keeper Sara Halerson offers a minnow to Feisty. The two harbor seals were moved from the Duluth Zoo, which has been affected by flooding.
Under ominous skies stands the equestrian statue of Damdin Sukhbaatar, leader of Mongolia's 1921 revolution, near Parliament in Ulan Bator.