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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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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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This tree walk was new since the last time I visited the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

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Reflections on the glass made it difficult to get a clear shot of this tiger.

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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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The Thunderbirds, celebrating Air Force Academy graduation, fly over head in my annual grainy photo taken from the deck of our house.