Primate Watering

Hello again. Here's another monkey picture I found. I think I feeling my roots... ha ha. Yeah, I'm a dorky science geek. I think this is funny. When I first saw this picture I thought of this clip that was played on E's The Soup. It was from a Spanish-language television station of a woman spraying her self with water. She was supposedly washing a car but there was no car in the scene. Weird. Anyway, just wanted to share.

A Monkey, an Orange Popsicle, and a Chain

What do you think about this picture?

I see a monkey with creepy eyes and some weird ear curvature that's holding an orange popsicle and chained up. Hmmm.... I got this off Yahoo! News while looking for random pictures.

I am drawn to this picture although it makes me feel oddly weirded out. So many questions...

I guess it reminds me of the orangutans at the Singapore Zoo. They were roaming free in an area built especially for them based on their natural environment. They had blocks of colored ice that had treats frozen in the middle (it was hot and they get two treats in one!). It was fun to see how some just licked the block of ice over and over again, while others tried to bite and rotate, bite, examine and rotate. One smart female threw the iceblock down and broke it on the cemented area of the "cage". That was fun to watch and they all seemed as content as a zoo animal could be.

This monkey, however does not look so happy; in fact, it looks frightened, suspicious and protective of it's treat. Why is it chained up? I just don't understand. If you have something to add, please leave a comment with your thoughts.

My Encounter with Buddy

As my friends and I were walking up the hill in NW Portland to enjoy the sunny day, we came across a man and a tortoise. Buddy was just walking up and down a stretch of grass along side the road and often veering off course into the road. We stopped to chat. Buddy was friendly and allowed me to pet his shell and head! The best part was when he stepped on my foot. They move pretty quick for being "slow" animals. Oh, and he was super duper cute when he ate grass... actually I think that was my favorite part of our visit. I so want one but I know the consequences... they can live for 100+ and grow to be up to 300 pounds! Oh well, we can't get everything we want. So I leave you with a picture of a rare Galapagos tortoise named George.




(from Yahoo! News)

What Up Echidna?

This is my new favorite picture and is currently up on my desktop background. This is Cess, an echidna (a monotreme: part mammal, part marsupial, part reptilian) from Australia. It is blowing bubbles out of it's beak. This poor echidna was found on the side of the road and taken care of at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. It had broken feet (in yellow casts) and a damaged beak (which is probably the reason for the bubble-blowing). So freaking cute!




From BBC News...
These, I found on a blog somewhere.

Another Wedding

Here's a card I made tonight for my cousin's wedding. Their colors are pink and brown...



I used brown organza ribbon and pink satin ribbon, tied in a knot (no pun intended). The "Love is in the air" stamp is from A Muse and is actually on the inside of the card. I cut an oval into the front panel and distressed the edges so that the brown shimmery paper that I pasted on the inside would show through. I cut a scalloped edge to also let the brown shimmery paper show. The background stamp is an inkadinkado in colorbox dusty plum. The kissing couple is also by inkadinkado and stamped in dark brown chalk ink but since it didn't stamp out well enough, I went over it with a prismacolor cocoa bean pen. There is some glitter scattered about. The ribbon around the card is wrapped around the entire card, so the happy couple will have to take that off first. I used the dusty plum ink directly on white paper to make a matching ribbon attacher-thing and wrote out their initials. It might be a little too much, but it took me much longer to make than it looks...