Watch The Beak

Another specimen brought out by the folks at the World Bird Sanctuary. I have only a basic idea of what vultures do for a living but we can assume that the beak is built for tearing flesh apart. Better to stay well away, IMHO.                  

Dumpster Diver

The same raven later in the day. Scroll down to understand its task. It not only snatches dollar bills but recycles aluminum as well.                

The Raven Works For Tips

There is a remarkable World Bird Sanctuary on the outskirts of our area. They always bring some flying wonders to Earth Day. Here we have a species of raven that is trained to take money from people's hands and drop it in the donation box. It does not get a percentage of the take. Pretty cool.

It can also fly around a larger area, take aluminum cans from people and drop them in a recycling bin. We'll get to that.   

If You Say So

We went to the Earth Day festival in Forest Park. It wasn't so great. It gets more and more crowded and commercial. All of the exhibitors are trying to sell or promote something. The entertainment, at least what we saw, ranged from tame to lame. There was, however, one very cool show by the Wild Bird Sanctuary outside of town, which we will get to.

Sorting your trash and recycling whatever possible is a very good thing to do, but if you think it's fun your life needs an upgrade.               

Le Roi Au Printemps

Life gets too overloaded and some days it's hard to think of something to shoot and post. But on as gorgeous a spring day as we had yesterday I can always go out to Art Hill and the art museum and take pictures of Louis. I can hardly remember seeing the park so crowded. There must have been 12 or 15 or who knows how many wedding parties taking pictures around the Grand Basin. A happy life to them.

The Earth Day festival takes place in the park today, a photographer's banquet.     

The Score

The baseball stadium got a big upgrade in its electronic display boards during the off season. Now they approach the quality of a high definition television, at least from a distance. The section here shows the scores and other information about other games played on the day we attended. I'm sure it's baffling to people who don't know the sport. (E.g., Toronto Blue Jays at Boston Red Sox, Boston leading 4 to 1 in the bottom of the third inning, two outs and no one on base for Boston. Holt hitting, Dickey pitching. Five hits for Boston, one for Toronto. Neither team has committed an error. Q.E.D.) 

Buddha Says...

Eightfold or otherwise.. From the butterfly house. Butterflies don't have a path.