Flamingoes

I love flamingoes.

I didn't realize they were such a noisy and rather mean bird.

We visited them at the zoo yesterday.  They are a lot more pink 

at the zoo because of the dye that is in their food pellets. 

In the wild their color comes from

carotenoid proteins in their diet of animal and plant plankton.

Caribbean Flamingo

Some flamingoes live high in the Andes of South America.  They do a funny dance of courtship.

Massive volcanoes and flamingo colony-South America -BBC

Pretty Kitty

Is this a cheshire cat or what?

Creation

How could anyone deny there is a creator God? Everything displays His splendour.

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Daughters and giraffes

We visited the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs where my children (not so small anymore) got to feed the giraffes. Here are Becky and Melissa, up close and personal with the giraffe. Do you see any similarities? In the girls? Giraffes have very long tongues. They like to eat crackers too.