Remembrances

Cynthia continues to chug away at the scrapbook for the trip to Spain. She’s completed Madrid, Seville, Segovia and Toledo.

Granada and Barcelona are going to be HUGE.

She’s already filled 1 1/2 giant binders full of photos, ephemera and her own recollections of the vacation. I bet this will be 4-6 binders by the time it’s done.

This has propelled me forward in processing my photos. I have completed the following galleries here at baldheretic.com

Madrid Gallery
Madrid
Mardid - Retiro Park
Madrid – Retiro Park
Madrid - Segway Tour
Madrid – Segway Tour
Segovia
Segovia
Seville
Seville
Seville - Alcazar
Seville – Alcazar
Cordoba
Cordoba
Toledo
Toledo
Granada
Granada
Granada - the Alhambra
Granada – The Alhambra

There’s a partial gallery for Barcelona, but it is not complete.

Oh, and I should not forget the nearly complete gallery for William The Well Travelled Sheep


William The Sheep in Spain!

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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)

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