Cincinnati Zoo

 My phone is not in the mood to send pictures to the laptop, so no picture today.  

But if there were a picture - you would see bi-color yellow and orange tulips, planted beside deep red tulips.  Very striking, and I wish you could see them.

My mammogram was scheduled for mid-day and going to the zoo was the carrot at the end of that experience.  The zoo is only about a mile down the road from the medical complex.

The temperature was in the 70's and the zoo was crowded.  The number of cars in the overflow parking lot was my first clue.  There was a vacated spot in the canopied lot so I was happy.  

I just walked down the paths and admired the spring flowers and a gigantic tortoise.  And a baby porcupine in the nursery.  The flowers were perhaps a week or ten days past their peak but still glorious.

Another day I'll go back and admire a few animals and the new plantings, maybe early in the morning or late in the afternoon.  That's one of my goals for this year - frequent zoo visits.  Every year I buy a family pass complete with parking and a guest included and it ends up being a donation because there is maybe one visit.  

Not that there is anything wrong with a donation, I'm happy to support a fabulous zoo.  This past year Nora took a friend to the festival of lights at Christmas.  And 2025 will be my zoo year.