Friday Night Photos Safari Park Edition
Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.
We got a little bit of rain last night and there's heavy mist as I'm writing this, this morning . It's supposed to be partly sunny and mild tomorrow through Monday and then maybe a slight chance of rain for the rest of next week. We shall see. I topped off the car while I was out grocery shopping earlier this morning. The price has been holding steady at $4.29 a gal for the last few weeks. As for groceries, eggs were $13.49 for 1 1/2 doz. $5 for 1 lb of ground beef and $2.50 for a 4oz can of tuna. Hope things are a little more affordable in your neck of the woods.
Some of our favorite friends at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
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Thanks for sharing your critters
Like the horns section
Images from a local shooter ..
Sunst over the Sakonnet River
Detail of stone wall
local legend has it the natives moved the rocks from the fields to clear the land for
settlers farming and stacked them along the perimeter. still standing
question everything
Hi, Q
The horn section. I like that.
Beautiful sunset shot. I love the colors. Great looking stone wall. I wonder how long it took to build?
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about 400 years
give or take a few restacks, falling trees, crazy oxen driving tractors
and occasional drunk drivers. It is a geologists wet dream. Mostly
granite and quartz, some slate; lots of lichen and moss for color.
Cheers!
question everything
WOW!
400 years to put the jigsaw puzzle together.
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Hi Q
You live in a very beautiful part of the world.
I'm pretty sure the stones were moved to cultivate land and define borders, natives or immigrant farmers, I don't know? The walls, whoever built them though, are a pleasure to see in their environment of old trees, buildings and gardens. It has lots of character.
Hi Social
Thanks for taking us on safari with you. One question, are the gorilla's meals delivered by UPS?
Some safari music ...
Hi, Janis
Not UPS, FedEx. Food delivered in paper bags is one of the many different ways the keepers use to make the gorillas work to get to their food.
I like the song. I don't know what they're singing about but the music is really upbeat.
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We don't want any lazy gorillas
or frustrated ones. I suppose they are more dextrous than we are, but it hardly looks that way. They need scissors!
Good evening all
Raindrops and sunspots ...
Unfortunately, we have had concerningly little rain in almost 2 months. If you have any rain songs that might help, please send them ; ).
Enjoy the weekend
Cool photo, Janis
I hope you get some rain soon. If it gets real bad do what I call the paleface rain dance, wash your car. There's something about a newly washed car that seems to attract rain.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
I might try both colour rain dances
I'll let you know if anything works : )
What, no rain dance music?
Your photo of the bush is almost mystical
Try playing this one!
while waxxing your car ..
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TY, Q
It’s the sense of the mystical that ties me here. Thank you for recognising it. I would love to share it with you and others in reality, but this is the best I can do.
Thank you for the Who’s musical rain dance. I've never been to Winnipeg, but it has forever held a special place in my heart. I have a treasured photo of my immigrant grandfather with a native Canadian in Winnipeg, in full dress. My grandfather travelled there to buy fresh fish to bring back to Brooklyn and smoke for sale to delis.
I leave the waxing up to a friend who loves all things to do with car love.
Cheers to you always
Hey J!
Hi Janis!
Grat pic Janis! Nature IS art!
be well!
happy f stops!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi d
I have always bowed in respect and pleasure to the unparalleled gift of beauty that nature offers - art in its purest form.
Hi pixelators
Hi all, Hey SP!
Great photos SP! Bunch of awesome beasties. Love those Oryx. So on the second photo, the one with heads at both ends... Which way was it going?
Thanks for the trip to Africa!
back in a phlash with a photo......
GREAT work SP!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi, dystopian
Which way was the two headed critter going? you ask. I believe it was going towards the eight legged giraffe in the fourth photo.
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shells again
Hi all,
A few more shell shots.
First the art pic.
Breaking news flash!
nature IS art
We'll get back to that later...
This tropical snail is about 3" across, and tall, about a half-poud, and fairly pearlescent.
Chambered Nautilus
Tropical Barnacle - the cells are over an inch across the opening and about 2-2.5" deep,
Didja figger out the first pic yet?
Pillow Dollar. A tropical type of Sand Dollar that is big and thick. This one over 4" across and 1.5" thick. Very thick strong exoskeleton, not brittle like ou thin wafers.
gotta fly,
be well all!
happy trails!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
The close-up
of the Pillow Dollar is great. Another excellent example of patterns and textures in nature. How much of that half-pound tropical snail is snail, and how much is shell?
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Hi d!
The more intimate view of the pillow dollar is captivating. Its shape has a kind of pregnant look to me, and its patterns and textures seem so tangible. Thank you.
My wife and I
did the Roar and Snore there probably 25 years ago. We brought our sleeping bags, and overnighted in tents they provided, bedded down between the lions and the elephants. In the morning we then had a nice camp breakfast, and access to the park for two hours before it opened. Just us and the staff.
Sunrise there is magical. I’m glad that we did it, and I doubt that they do any more…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Hi, ufs
Glad you had a memorable trip to the Safari Park. They still do the Roar and Snore and the tents are still between the lions and elephants.
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Cool.
It boggles my mind that they can still do it. I’d have figured that they were looking under every oryx for a terrorist…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I really enjoy your way with words
"I’d have figured that they were looking under every oryx for a terrorist…"
A little trust may go a long way.
There is something weird about the seventh photo
the head sits kind of strange on the leopard - can the leopard turn his head sort of more than 90 degree?
How about your mood these days? Mine is as fubar as it gets. Have you ever tried to explain to a German what fubar means? Dont try, my last attempt with one of my caretakers was as fubar as it gets, but in the emd she was as happy to learn about fubarly things as it gets-
With fubarly love to all those non-fubarly frinds on this site. I am waiting for spring.
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