Excursion To The Houston Zoo

Cynthia and I decided we’d go to the zoo and renew our memberships and take a walk through since it was such a lovely day. Once we took care of the renewal we headed head straight for the Meerkat exhibit, only to find it choked off with a wacky batch of seniors with an over abundance of very elaborate camera gear…

There were about 6 of them with high powered lenses, tripods and tricked out flash units not to mention backpacks, camera vests and various other sundry gear. It was rather comical, to say the least.

This guy was the most “loaded for bear” of them all…

Despite the camouflage, I am fairly certain the meerkats saw him in the abundant sunlight.

Here’s a few of what I was able to capture using my limited equipment…


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Those seem a little sad so here’s a cute photo of the baby Orangutan playing peek-a-boo with a red blanket


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And here’s a pretty bird from the aviary


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Oh, The Vanity!

According to Flickr, these are my top 25 photos rated in order of “interestingness” ….

Top 25 Most Interesting Photos

1. Classy Chassis Car Show – Fake Miniature, 2. Architecture of the Quilt – MFAH, 3. Macro of flower, 4. Vanishing Point, 5. Lizardo, 6. Minding The Store, 7. Cockrell Butterfly Center, 8. Gee’s Bend Architecture of the Quilt – MFAH, 9. Tiki Heads and Elvis, 10. Triumph, 11. Reflections, 12. Rooftop, 13. Yellow Python, 14. Williams Tower – Twilight, 15. Cockrell Butterfly Center, 16. My first Guinness in Ireland, 17. 3700 Main St., 18. Caught in the rain, 19. Shroom In Bloom, 20. Inside Looking On, 21. Umbrella Shop, 22. DJ Amanda Robinson, 23. Dweezil and Frank, 24. Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 25. Ragin Cajun Christmas (Crawdad Claus)

Oh Possum, Where Art Thou?

At Cynthia’s office there’s been an ongoing battle with an opossum that has taken up residence in a tree next to the parking garage. The creature has been hissing at people as they pass by so her employer tasked building management with its removal.

This has been going on for a few weeks now.
They’ve set a live animal trap, but to date have only captured the occasional stray cat.

I’ve been sending opossum pics to Cynthia’s work e-mail so she can taunt the failures of the opossum squad.

I found a good one that I decided to give the LOLcat treatment…

It was inspired by one I found and sent earlier

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