First post on the 'Memories in quite a while. I shot these photos in New Orleans about a month ago (that long?? time sure flies...) at the Jackson Day Race on a very cold morning with the temperature at about 21degrees F. Our family had a reunion of sorts to celebrate the 103rd running.
Some of you may know that the pelican is the State Bird of Louisiana. A pelican with 3 chicks is on the state flag. This was the closest to pelicans I had been in quite a while, so I snapped a few shots and these were the best of the lot.
pelican on the Bayou St John
The pelican staring at me over its back in the photo below is the same one that is in the photo above. I really felt sorry for them if they were as cold as I was that morning.
pelican family
Ok so the photo below is not a pelican, it's a heron. He was fishing in one of the ponds around the New Orleans Museum of Art. We passed it as we "raced" along (actually walked, more on that in a later post).
heron
I apologize again for this short note. I have been so busy (darn Facebook!) but I didn't want too long to pass before I got back to this blog. I hope to be back more often in coming weeks.
Thanks for stopping by,
Mike Z
oh MIke ... forget already about the Facebook - it gets into your head and hypnotizes you eventually completely (the reason why i quit) :D:D:D
ReplyDeleteanyhow, really nice to see some posts here too! beautiful pictures again - as always :)
Hi Kairi-Linda!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for stopping by, I agree FB is a time suck, but how will I connect with all my friends?... :-) I guess I am already addicted.
Lots of distractions in my life right now. I hope that you and the beautiful little one are doing well. I still smile when I translate your posts with Google Translate. Sometimes I think "she can't possibly be saying THAT"
heh heh
I just bought a new printer, and am having fun translating some of my digital images onto paper. What a challenge! I am slowly learning, very very slowly.
All the best,
Mike Z