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Sunday gave us a gorgeous morning. The rains of Thursday and Friday, and the cold wind of Saturday morning had given way to the perfect. We weren't the only ones raring to go..
Across the Potomac from our hotel was the campus of Georgetown and its boat house.
We had made plans for the early part of the day as later was birthday celebration with yet more family coming into town.
The Metro got us there and back without adding to the logistics of who's meeting whom when and where.
One guess...
The Smithsonian's National Zoo is fairly busy on a Sunday, but we have solitude and squirrels where we come from. (Even bear nose prints on the storm door.)
We were here to see that which is not everyday and that goal was easily met.
The crowd's applause made us look up.
Talk about your Metro.
If Golden Lion Tamarins watch Seinfeld re-runs, they will appreciate "it wasn't a hump; it was a pick."
We have porcupines at home but not with ninja capabilities like these.
Imagine one swinging by it's prehensile tail shooting darts at you faster than Tony Baloney's shots of pepper spray. Ow's indeed.A "mousing cat" has a certain look but would you ever guess why this intensity?
The pool is stocked by staff for the fishing cat.These guys mess with the geometry of their containment. I like that.
The mountain lion sighting around here is rare.
But it happens.
Better when inside the 4-Runner than hoofing it to the mailbox in the dead of winter.
I love the big cats.
This zoo is known by every little one as home to the giant pandas, but Asian elephants also figure large. Much of their area is under construction and it will add, for lack of a better word, mileage. For they need to cover that ground.
It's their nature.
Currently they do the same circuit many, many times.
And they have a really, really bad agent.
Will work for peanuts.More to follow.
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The Metro was brand new on my first solo visit around '78 and I couldn't help noticing how much nicer it was than the NYC subway system (the cars even had carpeting). Years later NYC does have many new subway cars and a number of renovated stations, but none have that wonderful arched concrete ceiling design that most of the DC stations have that give such a spaciousness and a special feeling to waiting for a train.
Thanks for another wonderful photo essay and I'll be checking to see what you post next!