Posted in Travel, Uncategorized on May 11, 2010| 1 Comment »
Yikes. Who’s running this thing?
In the past three weeks, I’ve been to New York City and back, completed a pretty involved school research project and fretted over my elderly grandmother and a broken ocean. I also made the most awesome banana-walnut ice cream of all time and embarked on several new personal and professional projects.
More to come.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Home, Photographs, Travel, tagged animals, art, artist, birds, color, colorful, eclectic, Etsy, frame, framing, giraffe, Kristiana Parn, MonkeyHook, New York, New York City, note cards, rabbit, street market on March 18, 2010| 2 Comments »
I picked up these note cards at a street market in New York City last year and promptly began neglecting to frame them. Now they’re framed and I have to find a place for them. I’m thinking they’d look great staggered on the wall beside the stairs … more on that when I finally punch three holes in the wall with my fabulous MonkeyHooks.
The artist is Kristiana Parn, and I simply love her colorful, eclectic work. Head to her website at www.kristianaparn.com to see more of her art; she also has items available in her Etsy shop.
Posted in Photographs, Travel on November 17, 2009| 1 Comment »
Llamas are hilarious and they know it.
I have no idea how I lived in Huntsville for almost three years without visiting the Harmony Park Safari. Although I’m not much of a zoo person anymore, I can totally get on board with a drive-through safari.
Animals including deer, goats, llamas, miniature horses, a bison, a zebra, and a small variety of fancy-looking cattle will come right up to your vehicle door, expecting a handful of corn.
Note: Buy at least one bucket of corn for $5 at the entrance. Do you really want to be the one piker on the whole safari path who doesn’t feed the animals? They can smell cheap, you know.
The drive-through park is open from 10 a.m. until sunset March through November. It’s an awesome way to spend a fall or spring afternoon. Summer afternoons I cannot vouch for, since intense heat and pasture animals can be an odorous combination.
Entry fee is $6 a person. If you’ve got kids who are in any way scared of large animals, don’t bring them, because the animals are decidedly not scared of you and will hover menacingly next to your vehicle. Especially the emus.
Harmony Park is located at 431 Clouds Cove Road SE. Google Maps will get you there, but it’s a rural area and cell service is spotty, so you may not be able to follow the blinking blue dot the whole way.
He's tiny, but he's persistent.
African tortoises taking a nap in the reptile house.
Fancy livestock abound.
Technically you should keep your arms inside the vehicle. I married a rebel.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Huntsville, Photographs, Travel, tagged animals, fun, Huntsville, iPhone, safari, ToyCamera, weekend, zebra on November 10, 2009| 2 Comments »
Harmony Park Safari in South Huntsville: If you live here and you’ve never been, GO. It’s a riot.
More pics TC.
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