Snaps and Frames

Not sure how it was all going to work, Tameka Tatsey, 13, and her friend Alex King, 12, try on a pair of over-sized pants for their conjoined twins Halloween costume at the Spokane, Wash. Value Village Friday, Oct. 29 2010. The girls spent most of their time in the pants rolling on the floor laughing at each other. Photo/Colin Mulvany.

On the flight line at the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan, Dustin Harder, a mechanic deployed with the 141st Washington Air National Guard Air Refueling Wing, cleans the fuel filters on a engine of a KC-135R Stratotanker. Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

In a delicate dance between man and machine high above Afghanistan, an F-15E Strike Eagle tops off its tanks with jet fuel provided by a Fairchild Air Force Base 92nd Air Refuling Wing KC-135R Stratotanker on deployment at the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan. Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

As morning light breaks over the Atlantic Ocean, Airman 1St Class James White with 92nd Air Refueling Wing from Fairchild Air Force Base, sleeps during his 9-hour flight to England in a KC-135R air refueling tanker. White was on his way to a four-month deployment in Kyrgyzstan that will involve deicing aircraft at the Manas Transit Center.

Raindrops gather on the bloom of a Dahlia in the Inland Empire Dahlia Society National Trail Garden in Manito Park in Spokane, Wash., on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review