thunder

There was thunder, Tuesday morning. Early morning thunder makes for happy kids. Outdoor pools aren't safe when there's lightning, so thunder at swim time means no practice.

Sophie was afraid of thunder. Less so in recent years as her hearing diminished. Awakened by thunder at 5:00 am Tuesday, I thought "Uh-oh, Sophie is worried...."

I hope not.

The dogboys prefer to be right with us when there is loud thunder, but they don't pant hard, and shiver, the way Sophie did when she was their age.

Sophie also worried about the kitchen timer, to the extent that she'd go upstairs any time she knew we would use it (when there is rice on the stove, say). I'm glad she doesn't have to worry about that any more.


Here are some more denizens of the zoo. I'm probably getting carried away with the "poster-edge" filter, but I like the way it sharpens up things that are kinda soft-focus in the originals...... It does a good job of picking out the things that I think are the most important, and making them more prominent.

We had noticed that several primates had brown paper bags in their enclosures, but it wasn't until we got to the colobus monkeys that we saw the bags had (or had had!) popcorn and Cheerios in them. From the number of bags, I'm guessing that each individual was given her/his own bag of goodies.....




















Check out them eyelashes.....