Noticing the Year: 01/01/08

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I noticed the zoo is beautiful when it's snowing.




I doubt that it ever snows in the places where emus are from, but their shaggy feathers seem well-suited to it.


There were lions in Europe as late as two thousand years ago. The Romans were harder on them than the snow would have been.


And the coating of snow on this saltwater croc slowed him down enough for me to photograph him safely!

It was a very picturesque snow: big wet flakes that stuck to things in clumps. It actually got warmer as it snowed, and it's all gone now. We just walked the dogs and I was delighted to be walking on the sidewalk, and not the unpredictable mix of substrates that have been there for the past several weeks.

I'm already kind of sick of the word "notice." I was thinking about this post and repeating the phrase in my head: "Today I noticed x, today I noticed Y..." It made me think of the episode of Futurama where Fry has the Lucy Liu-bot and she tells him "It's amazing the way you NOTICE TWO THINGS."