Tag Archives: Animals
Euro Trip Day 40: Getting to indulge my love of Gothic cathedrals AND geology, all in the same day!
AKA, Why I’m the biggest nerd EVER. :-) On Wednesday we headed up to Prague Castle to check out St. Vitus Cathedral, a HUGE Gothic cathedral. Now, I’ve known since my freshman year of high school in Spanish class, when we learned about Santiago de Compostela in Spain, that I’ve been fascinated by cathedral architecture. [...]
Posted in Cameraphone, Euro Trip 2010, Travel
Also tagged Buildings, Czech Republic, Food, People
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Milo the Screech Owl
Milo the Screech Owl, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. This little cutie is Milo, a Western Screech Owl and a resident at the Discovery Museum of Sacramento. John’s nephews (ages 9 and 11) spent the night last night, and since it was pouring rain today and we didn’t want to do anything outside, we took them [...]
Ok, so I FINALLY finished uploading those Costa Rica pictures…
Costa Rica 139, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. These are leaf cutter ants, quite possibly one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Seriously. I finally finished uploading my Costa Rica pictures, and blog posts will be forthcoming (no, seriously–they will! I just don’t know when!) Right now though I’m working on more photo processing–I have [...]
I caught you a partridge, but I eated it
In case you don’t get the reference in the post title, it’s this internet meme. A veterinarian friend of mine is holding a 12 Days of Petmas roundup on her blog, and I volunteered to take Day 4 (4 calling birds, in case you don’t remember the song.) So this evening I decided to take [...]
My crazy-colored cat
Alert kitty is alert, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. I had another post all queued up for this blog earlier this week, but it broke my HTML, and until I get around to figuring out WHY, this ridiculously cute cat will have to suffice. :-) She was sitting up on my bed, staring out the window [...]
My leopard, let me show you him
Randomness 015, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. I went to the Sac Zoo again this year for Smithsonian’s Free Museum Day a couple of weeks ago, and took this. Isn’t he gorgeous? I love this shot. :-)
Posted in Best Of, In and Around Sacramento
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Hanging out at the park
I live three blocks from one of the awesomest parks ever–it has a duck pond and a library and everything. I totally love it–it’s what made me want to move to my neighborhood in the first place. So I was there last week hanging out and taking pictures, and stumbled upon this guy, who ever-so-nicely [...]
Camouflage
Look closely. See anything interesting? . . . . I was walking along the shoreline at the duck pond at McKinley Park last week, looking for some baby wood ducks who will make an appearance in a later post, and somehow, the faintest bit of movement in the above-pictured reeds caught my attention. I looked, [...]
The peace of wild things
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the [...]