Happy Easter From Reflections

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Happy Easter, may your soul be filled with beauty and awe at the love.

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Mr G and Cap Getting Ready for the Bunnies.

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Mr. G, aka Gallagher:

And, Cap, AKA, Cappy, AKA Captain Hook:

Wishing all a very Happy Easter.



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Let The Sun Shine In

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By the way, this is a shrub/bush sized plant.

Mountain Side Spring, Kern County, California

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See the bird?  Fun capture with Sony Too. Photo has been enhanced digitally.




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Duck, Duck, What KIND of Duck?

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Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium.

Can you identify this beauty??  It may not be a resident of North America.

*  Thanks to cousin Connie, I believe we have the identification, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, see this page.

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Peacock, Glorious, Colorful, Peak at Cha, Peacock

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Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium.  Strolling by:

Peaking at the zoo attendees from on top of a display.  I see you too!

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Next Year's Orange In The Making

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Would love to share the smell too, heavenly, as long as you don't get too close and have an unpleasant encounter with the buzzer.

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Seahorse and Shrimpfish

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Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium

See those thin slivers of pale yellow-green with a middle of dark green?  Those are shrimpfish.  The seahorse is holding on to the plant life with his nimble tail.  The lighting was very dark in this section of the aquarium, I need to go back and get more practice shooting these.  Tough assignment.

Yellow-Headed Jawfish

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Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium

These small (only 3 to 4 inches long) fish were fascinating to watch, poking their heads in and out of their "burrows".  The Wikipedia page does not tell us a lot, except interesting to note, the males carry the eggs in their mouths till the young hatch.

Note:  auto-correct was used to remove the very green tint to these photos, a bit of sharpening was also done to crisp up the edges.  They moved fairly quickly and being so small, they were a challenge to capture at all.  They were entertaining to watch.

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Greater Barracuda

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Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium.  This creature can grow to over 6 foot long.  These particular specimen were about 3 to 4 foot (to the best of my memory).   I liked how they lined up, almost perfectly horizontal, unlike many of the other species who swim all over the place, up and down, in small circles, in, and out.  Not these dudes, just line up and make one large circle in the tank.

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Joshua Tree - - Buds To Blooms

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Crossing two states and two weeks (give or take), I have been drooling a bit, the Joshua Trees have been in bloom, buds to blooms.  I have been frustrated because for many many miles there was no way for Man to pull Jolly and Tana over for me to get a photo.  I moaned, and I groaned and we kept on driving.  He was right, there was no safe place to pull over.  But, I sure don't like missed opportunities.  So, I watched carefully and one day while on a day trip (sans Tana) I saw a rest stop with Joshua Trees growing there.

I noted the same and on the way home that afternoon I had Man pull off, I got out and tromped around and finally found "buds".

I was satisfied, sorta.  At least I had photos of a "bud".

Alas, a week or so later, while running, I spied more Joshua Trees, and these obviously had full blooms.  Yes, I still wanted more photos, I mean, really, full blooms??  YEA, I wanted photos, and yes, we were towing.

To the rescue, another rest area.  OK, I needed to rest, the fur kids needed to rest, but, I really wanted to see if there was a Joshua Tree planted in the rest area, seeing that there were hundreds in the acres of vacant land we were driving by.  And, oh, yes, there was a Joshua Tree, a large beautiful speciman:

Covered with blooms (which by the way, probably were 10 or more inches in length, they were nice and big!  WOOT!

And, I took LOTS of photos!

Zoom, closer and closer:

WIN!!!

Hope you enjoyed.  I know I did!




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Turtle Tripod

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Closer and a different angle, I hear the awwws:

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'Tain't Purdy, But He Is Colorful and He Is King

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A    King Vulture    that is.

Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium.

*  Note:  only editing done to this photo was to resize for the blog.

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Dromedary Camel

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Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium.

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Black Swan

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Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium

According to this Wikipedia article, these beautiful creatures are from Australia, "When swimming, Black Swans hold their necks arched or erect, and often carry their feathers or wings raised in an aggressive display."  Ruffles, yes, thank you!

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Pink and Pretty

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I originally thought this was a red bud, but now believe it is some kind of a pink flowering crab.  Truthfully, I am not sure it is a crab either!  LOL

In full bloom on March 4th in Pahrump Nevada.

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Baby Stuff :: Zebra

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Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium.

What's not to love??  AHHHHH factor reigns!

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