Thursday, August 25, 2011

Comic Animal Relief

Wow. The east coast is taking intermission between the 5.9 temblor and the imminent Irene. Back here in the "peaceful" midwest, we had our own fun with a little event I like to call midnight tree topping. It seems a cool front packed a 70 mph wind burst punch and took out trees all over the west end of one town near here. In fact, we got to awaken around 1:30 to two ominous things: blinking lights from police cars and the sound of a chain saw. It seems a good portion of a neighbor's tree crashed down on the street and stopped traffic. The good news is there is basically NO TRAFFIC on our street at 1:30 a.m.

Anyhow, between that and the roller coaster ride our economy is taking, and the seesaw ride our national politics is taking, and all the rest of the drama and uncertainty, as a public service to you, the reader (and at this point, this blog may just be speaking to you, yeah, YOU, as "the reader"), we bring you some photos taken a handful of weeks back when, while on vacation, we again visited the African Wildlife Safari. Longtime readers of this site will recall previous such photo collections. Those who know their animals will wonder why the place is billed exclusively as "African".

Anyhow, here they are, providing you with some escape from the worries of the day.



The End


4 comments:

George said...

Thanks for the great pictures. I definitely feel much better. The hurricane is still coming and our drought here in Tennessee is continuing, but at least I have a smile on your face.

Connie said...

I loved this post, Ben! Thanks for the great pictures. Made me smile. We've been to the African Wildlife Safari a couple of times. We took our boys when they were much younger. Somewhere we've got some old video of a buffalo sticking his head in the car window trying to get the pellet food and my kids shrieking as it stole the whole cup full of food out the window. haha! :-)

Gordon said...

NOw maybe you had better put all of these animals in a big boat,two by two. That's how much rain we are getting with this hurricane.

Minerva said...

Cute pictures. I like the cow-like face. He looks like he has lower dentures! The giraffe with the sky backdrop is good, too.