DAILY PHOTO: Jekyll Island Club Hotel

Taken in the summer of 2012 on Jekyll Island

DAILY PHOTO: Lighthouses of the Golden Isles

Taken on Saint Simons Island in the summer of 2012

Taken on Sapelo Island in the Summer of 2012

DAILY PHOTO: Muscovy Duck, Struttin’ and Primpin’

Taken at General Coffee State Park in the Autumn of 2011

DAILY PHOTO: Red Panda

Taken in February of 2012 at the Atlanta Zoo

DAILY PHOTO: Owl

Taken at Callaway Gardens in the Autumn of 2012

DAILY PHOTO: No. This Is Sparta!

Taken Labor Day Weekend, 2011 at the DragonCon Parade in Atlanta

DAILY PHOTO: Temple of Heaven, Beijing

Taken in the summer of 2008 in Beijing

DAILY PHOTO: Church across a Lawn, Atlanta

Central Presbyterian Church from the State Capitol; Taken in February of 2012 in Atlanta

Atlanta First United Methodist (L) and Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (R) from SunTrust Plaza

POEM: Animal Observations

 sitting on a stone

-grassless

-hopless

and you call yourself a grasshopper!

 

I know I shouldn’t, but I anthropomorphize.

I can’t see this orangutan without hearing the words,

“Ya borin’ me!”

play in my mind

 

parents lunged to cover impressionable eyes,

but someday they will be adults

who wonder about the mechanics

of how baby giraffes get made

 

Dear Flamingos,

Stop hiding your heads.

It freaks out the tourists,

making them think there is a pile of heads in some other corner of the Zoo.

DAILY PHOTO: Memorials under Autumn Skies, Andersonville

Taken in December of 2011 at Andersonville National Historic Site / Andersonville National Cemetery