A Day in the Life

[urbpan]

Some pictures I took during my long day yesterday.

Guess what state I live in.


This is the nicest collection of shaggy manes (Coprinus comatus) I've ever encountered.


In animal care jargon, this is known as "environmental enrichment." In layman's terms, it's a "huge pain in the ass."


Yesterday was our Halloween event "Tales of the Night."


Some of the animals get the spotlight in seasonal style:


Some of the staff has fun dressing up as animals:


Visitors get the rare chance to meet our creatures of the night, at night:


We get to express our senses of humor, for a bit:


("Turkzilla" is alternately baffling and delightful to the visitors.)


We all work a long long day. (This shot, of a fantasically beautiful night landscape of the farm, shows the limitations of point-and-shoot digital photography, and the photoshop skill of cottonmanifesto: the photo, with the levels unaltered, was a white dot on a black background.)

Comments

[ninthraven.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU for these pictures!!!!!

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

I love your desk. I think many people would love to have a groundhog instead of a computer.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. It's my boss' desk, but mine is decorated much the same only more books and a tank full of cockroaches instead of a marmot. My other coworker has a mouse (live mouse in a cage) on her desk.

That groundhog has (along with her partner in crime, the rabbit) destroyed 3 computer cables, one coffee mug (mine), and a whole row of (mostly unused and ignored) books. she's very cute, but when she's in the office, I call her "wreckin' ball."

[omphalina.livejournal.com]

Turkzilla = PURE BRILLIANCE