Wednesday, March 10, 2010

B+W Wednesday

Glorious spring weather this weekend had us visiting our zoo.
I am so thankful to have such an incredible beautiful place near us.

Here are this week's pictures:
(As always, click on pictures to make larger)

It was as if an explosion of life had just occurred.
(You can see the color version here.)



These were some sort of thorny plant on the edge of a wetlands area.

A vivid green plant along the side of the path (in color here).


One of the many walkways over the wetlands area.


This snake was the most brilliant green I have ever seen.









At the Giraffe Overlook where you can feed them...
and yes, that's his tongue!




The giant statue in the Elephant area.
(I love Isabel's shadow in this one.)




The bricks at our feet while we sat on a bench eating shaved ice.
(Also the last picture before my battery died. Boo!!!!)



For more photos from people far more talented at photography,
pop on over to Lisa's blog at:

the long road

11 comments:

Donna said...

Oh! I love the textures! Especially that snake! The cherry blossoms are pretty too!

Donna
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Michelle R Photography said...

Great pictures!! I think they look great both in b/w and in color, and that thorny picture is just perfect in b/w!!

Anonymous said...

AWWW So jealous! Not to much longer and we can head to the zoo. Love your pictures, well maybe not the snake all that much ;) Kidding.. It's actually great texture. Who'd have thought?

Wanda said...

These are so great!!! I love them all - they just pop off the page (well....screen). Cherry blossums are one of my favorites. so nice to see them so early.

What a great place and so close to you. Lucky!!

Happy Wednesday!!

LivingSimply, SimplyLiving said...

Love them..and you have inspired me to visit the zoo with my kids..it has definitley been way too long...thanks:)

Don and Lisa Osborn said...

Wow!!! What amazing detail. You did a lovely job capturing so many aspects of nature.

Blessings~
lisa

Chasing Dreams Photography said...

very pretty and oh the textures....love them!!!! : )

Lynn said...

I love your pictures - all of them. The BW conversion is beautiful.

fleur de lis cottage said...

These are gorgeous!

Half Gaelic, Half Garlic! said...

What wonderful pictures of your fun trip to the zoo:) You captured so many cool textures.....and I love her shadow in that picture too!!

Sorry to your battery died.....I hate when that happens:(

Have a wonderful week!!

Sorry....I don't know how I missed you yesterday! Better late than never....right?

Lisa

Unknown said...

Great pictures! I love the first one. I can't wait to go to a zoo this year.