what about the plastic animals?

2011 Holiday Display, Hipstamatic Edition

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Let's go to Illinois tomorrow.

2011 Holiday Display

No theme but plenty of fun on this year's display of plastic animals.  The octopus was in a holiday mood. I experimented with a wavy "cracked ice" streamer this time.  It was well-received but a pain in the butt to put up.  The highlight for me was a real stink bug trying to mate with a giant plastic stink bug.  Next year I definitely need to return to a thematic presentation.

Scroll through photos of previous holiday displays.

Warthog

Action photo from Marcus Garvey Park!

Penguin's Gotta Eat

What do you feed a hungry penguin?  This one likes dried anchovies.

2010 Parade of Animals

Some years there is a theme to the animal parade, some years there's not.  This year was one of the latter, much to the frustration of those who try to figure out what the theme is.  Having said that a few of the animals were totally into the silly bandz craze this time.

Birds, Bear, Baboon and Echidna

How would you like to see a few plastic animals?  This year's display took advantage of the new digital photo frame in our atrium.  I photographed the animals at home, in a couple of parks and at work and then made a lovely little slide show for all to enjoy.

That was the plan.  The digital frame had a bad and unpredictable habit of switching from the photos I had on a flash drive to the stock photos on the frame's hard drive.  Some would say that was an improvement.

Dinosaur in Morningside Heights

Another street find!  This time it was a parasaurolophus on a traffic signal box at 111th and Broadway.  Lucky for me and the other passersby parasaurolophus is a gentle herbivore.  I righted the poor para, fed it some lettuce, took an out-of-focus picture, and went on my merry way.

2009 Holiday Display

Here's a few photos of the most recent holiday season display.  This was one of my lesser efforts, there was no theme or excessive decorating.  People seemed to enjoy it nonetheless.

Oh, if you're a fan of old movie theaters do not look at tomorrow's post.

Running Around the Animals

Making its triumphant return, because my new camera does video, is the runaround of the holiday display movie.  Enjoy the twenty-eight seconds of blurry happiness!

A Live One

A funny thing happened while I was putting away the holiday display.  One of the creatures moved!  The little guy on the right was a not-quite-dead insect of some sort. It didn't have enough strength to right itself so I helped him/her out and wished it well.