Peony at Sunrise - Close Up

I don't often take photos of flowers. Most likely, this one caught my attention due to the angle of the light. It was a couple of hours after sunrise and the Sun was still relatively low in the sky.

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Driving Home on a Rainy Day

Late in the day, not much light. Everyone just wants to get home.

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Government Flowers

There has been a small park with a nice walking trail near my home for over twenty-five years. This was a long, narrow area in the electric transmission right-of-way. The area was always well kept, mowed and often used as a practice field for soccer teams and the like.

Recently the nearby street was widened to accommodate increased traffic. As the park was improved (made narrower) it was discovered that it drained into a wetland area. Several new regulations governed the improvements. For instance, it can no longer be mowed.

So rather than let it go to weeds, it was sown with wildflower seeds. I have to admit, it looks very nice, though it can no longer be used for anything else. During the construction the walking trail was widened and improved. It's now very nice.

Click here to see a few more photos taken while on a walk around the area.

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Spring 2008

What better way to welcome Spring than to pay mother nature a visit. In this case I visited the drive through version. No reason to leave the climate controlled comfort of the car just to commune with nature.

The Wildlife Safari is a great family attraction located a few highway minutes south of Omaha, Nebraska. It's run by the same people that handle the world class Henry Doorly zoo.

The standards are just as high at the safari park, but the atmosphere is quite different. Where the zoo is obviously a man-made construction designed to look natural, the safari park is a natural area modified to accommodate the slow moving autos.

Here are a few photos from my visit on the park's opening weekend. Not pictured are the aviary or the valley that is home to bears and wolves.

You can can see other photos of the Henry Doorly Zoo and older photos of the Safari park here.

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Road Closed

By the looks of those tire tracks, there are quite a few folks that don't need a completely paved road.

The photo was taken on a sunny Saturday afternoon. The next day, it raned buckets. That should slow down the traffic.

Click here for more "street" photos.

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Spring Arrives at the Duck Pond

After a false start followed by a freeze, it looks like Spring has decided to stay for a while.

Many of the trees had started to bud when the late freeze hit. I was glad to see these survived. The flowers add a splash of color to the area around the duck pond.

If you'd like to see a few more photos from the duck pond, click here.

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