The Pathos of Smee

Tuesday 21 August 2018

This is a flamboyance:

This is public transport:

Alas, we have lost our Marbles.

But others carry on carrying on…

…all the way to the top.

Apes are artistic.

In that abstract kind of way.

OranguMom

You found your niche, now lie in it.

This way to Down Under

After all-the-ants-you-care-to-eat time.

There’s usually one napping at the end of a trench at Disney’s Animal Kingdom also.

Flora.

“I’m just resting my eyes…”

“Wait–did you hear a noise?”

Heaven, I’m in heaven,
And the cares that hang around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler’s lucky streak
When we’re out together dancing, beak to beak.

These are the tail feathers you’re looking for.

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris.

They need no introduction.

Further flora.

It’s an anapsid.

Further flora some more.

“Color me colorful.”

“Not everyone notices me.”

Two, four, six, eight — everyone reticulate!

Two, four, six, eight, everybody pollinate!

“I have the same number of vertebrae in my neck as you do.”

Further flora some more again.

That’s all. We didn’t see all of the zoo by any means. But although it was cool and nice when we got there, it got hot and sweaty so we left. Through the gift shop, as signs directed us. Sorry, no merchandise photos this time. Perhaps on my next Wichita expedition.

Sedgwick County Zoo website • zoo map • Location