what about the plastic animals?

Turtle Town

Turtles love the Morningside Park pond!  There usually are a couple dozen or more sunning themselves in the late morning.  Most of the turtles are red-eared sliders, which were all pets, or descendents of pets, that have been released into the pond.

More Zoo Creatures

Yes, meerkats actually do that standing up thing.  So do prairie dogs.  Nieces not so much.

I'm trying to think of how many zoos I've been to.  Not many.  As an adult I've gone to the San Diego Zoo once, the Cleveland Zoo once, but that was only to see the newly opened rainforest, and the Central Park Zoo a few times with visitors.  There was the Catskill Game Farm when I was a kid.  I also remember going to the very awful zoo in Watertown, New York.  The only clear memory I have of that is of people throwing gum and marshmallows to the bears, who would then chew and chew and chew.  I think that's it.  I'm not much of a zoo person.

In Memory Of...

I should have put this up yesterday.  This bench sits looking at the canal in Phoenix, New York.  I looked around some and couldn't find a second bench that said "our veterans" or "our heroes" or anything like that. Maybe they forgot to buy it.

Creatures at the National Zoo

Panda, lion, orangutan, an orange guy, sleepy flamingo, buzzard of some sort, and a red panda.  Aren't they all adorable?

An Honest Guy

At the Lincoln Memorial.

Inscribed on the wall behind Daniel Chester French's sculpture is:

IN THIS TEMPLE
AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE
FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION
THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
IS ENSHRINED FOREVER