Just a bunch of pictures.

We're planning a trip to the zoo soon, and that will undoubtedly generate plenty of pictures. It's been years since we were there. The last time was when our grandsons were small and I was limber enough then to crawl through the tunnels within the meerkat exhibit with them. Those days are gone. This time, we'll be touring the zoo with a busload of residents from our retirement village. 

But that's not for a while yet. Today I plan to show you some pictures from here and there.  Snippets taken out of our lives. I hope you enjoy them.

First of all, let's have some before and after sunrise pictures.

Next, a picture in honor of Lunar New Year, which is today, Saturday, February 10th, 2024. I took this photo at the mall the other day.

That's Jupiter on a somewhat wild night.  The clouds are flying by.  

This is a closeup of Jupiter, taken a few minutes after the photo above, with its four Galilean moons. I normally take this shot on the camera's manual setting. That allows me to set the shutter speed to 1/30 second. Because of the high humidity and wind tonight, I had to use the Moon setting instead and that required a shutter speed of 1.5 seconds.  That's why the moons all look elongated.  The Earth's rotation shows here.  We are really ripping along through space. 

(I don't know what that is down below)   

This is a little hard to see.  It's Orion and for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, it will appear upside down.  

The building is the Palms. It will be undergoing an 18 month renovation soon.  

I went for a walk today and saw Jeanne's posted up on Lincoln Road, quite some ways from our village.  It's nice having a famous wife.  That's her in the green shirt.

This is a short series called, Reflections.  This is where Jeanne and I start most of our summer mornings.  On the balcony with coffee.  

And here is the last one for this post.  This might be one of my best bee pictures. This one has it all. The 'hairs' on the bee, its wings, rough on the ends, its corbicula, its mouth parts and tongue, antennae, claws. Unless we see a picture like this, we have no clue about what the real world is like.  We see so little of it.    -djf