The Sunflower shares throughout this post are in the fields that are just about 5 miles from home. This is the first season that this farmer has planted them and they were magnificent. I have used them throughout my post share to divide up my sets.
Come along with me to the beautiful Louisville Zoological Gardens of Kentucky, USA.
You can see all of the wonderful animals and fun right from the comfort of your home, and not beat the heat and high indexes as we had to do.
A day outing on Tuesday with three of my grandsons.
Braden is 9 and is daughter Brittany and Dale's middle child.
The twins Cullen and Kerrick are the children of daughter Hillary and Andrew. You can see all of the wonderful animals and fun right from the comfort of your home, and not beat the heat and high indexes as we had to do.
Whew wee it has been hot here since May~
Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slideshow presentation after you have read the narratives~
I am joining in the fun with Eileen at:
Saturday's Critter
Anni at:
http://id-rather-b-birdin.blogspot.com/
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Stewart for:
We got to see a big favorite of all of ours... the male Orangutan named Teak and he is 30 years of age and such a huge part of the Zoo...he is so wonderful and seems almost human like.
Two of the boys had fun finding out what it feels like to be one.
See more images below~
One of my favorite animals at the zoo, the Sumatran Tigers. They just got this new male in April. His name is Heran and he is 11 years old. Heran was diagnosed with Glaucoma upon his first check-up and it was causing the Tiger chronic pain. They made the decision to remove his right eye and he has obviously adjusted beautifully. I love this set of image shares, watching Heran stalk and play act with the other Tiger was quite wonderful to witness...and you could tell he was enjoying the fun~
Though their troop is quite large at our zoo I did manage to get some photos of the Silver backs of the Gorilla family at the zoo... Jelani, Bengati, Cecil, Demba and Kicho had some time to roam their grounds and find the little tucks of fresh veggies, always such a great experience~
It has been quite a while in the making for me to finally get to see a real life Mandarin Duck pair. This exhibit is only open certain times of the year, and each time I have come, I have missed them in the past, but not this day~
This share of the elephants has much meaning for many reasons.
We arrived in time to see the elephants go through their daily routine.
We arrived in time to see the elephants go through their daily routine.
Mikki is 29 years old and she is an African Elephant. I don't remember the name of the Indian Elephant~
The zoo also has a great splash park and the boys had some great cool down from the high heat.
The little boy standing with the hat...his family shared a bench in the shade with me~
These are mosaics of some of the many other wildlife animals we got to see this day. The Polar Bear and Grizzly Bear exhibits were both getting some extra care and so we did not get to see them this trip~
Pink Flamingos and Bald Eagle~
Rodrigues Fruit Bat~
Pygmy Hippos baby, Rhinoceros, Bongo baby called Isabella, Griffon Vulture, Giraffe, Giant Tortoise, and a species of Monitor Lizards~
