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My mother’s cat Smoky is staying with us. She is an elderly dilute tabby Manx. In an attempt to keep her from laying on my laptop as I use it, I made a bed for her in a crate on my work table. She seems to think this is an acceptable compromise.
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While Rion and Lightning have been sharing dog beds for a while now, this was the first time I ever saw them touching while they did so.
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At 70F with no humidity I thought it was a lovely day for a walk. Rion, with his tarnished silver coat, didn’t agree: “it’s okay, Mom. I’ll wait here until sunset.” (We have new (to us) phones! With cameras! And Bluetooth!)
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I try to remember to call them Rudbeckia, but since I grew up in Maryland, I think I will always think of them as Black Eyed Susans (the state flower of Maryland.)
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The only time I’ve ever seen one of these in the wild, I had to keep hold of a 95 pound dog who was desperate to make its acquaintance. I enjoyed seeing it in the tree at the zoo much more.
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Seeing these at the zoo seemed a bit superfluous since I see them crossing the road on a daily basis in the summer.
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We alerted the keeper when we saw this orangutan digging out the window caulking with a stick. The keeper told us that the orangutan liked to chew the silicon, and they just re-caulked the window when necessary.
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Lowland Gorillas at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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This tree walk was new since the last time I visited the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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It was a very hot day when I visited the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, and these grizzly bears were having a blast playing in their pool.
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Reflections on the glass made it difficult to get a clear shot of this tiger.
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…and flash flood warning for this afternoon and evening.
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I doubt even my friend Dianne will think these are cute. I found two eggs in a precarious spot in my hay barn on July 6. I figured magpies would take the eggs so I didn’t disturb them. The eggs hatched two weeks later. I’ve had to get Jack to help me to pull down hay bales so the bales don’t roll onto the chicks. This photo was taken when the chicks were a week old, and they are even bigger and uglier six days later. I still can’t believe a predator hasn’t found them. I figure they will be fledged in another two weeks and after that I am destroying any eggs that find.
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