Camera practice

Lily has been working for several weeks on a sticker chart.

I called it her hi and bye chart.

She had to say hello to her teachers and school friends and goodbye.

Not an easy task for my Lily.

She however completed the chart without a setback.

My hope is that after 3 weeks we have created a pattern and

will have no more snarky hi's and byes.

She was rewarded at the end of each week with a small incentive.

Her big incentive was to go and ride some ponies by the zoo.

I decided that I have so many pictures of the zoo and surrounding area that it would be a good time to practice my camera skills.

I took my camera out of automatic mode.

Yikes can you believe it.

I am not overjoyed with the results

but I am pleased. I am really working on apperature.

I want the background to be blurred and my subject in focus.

I think part of my problem may be my lense.

That also may be an excuse for my lack of skill :0)

This is not a great picture but feeding the giraffes is exciting!

I also let her be as goofy as she wanted.

Unseasonable

This weekend the weather was just gorgeous. The sun shone and it hovered around 67 or so. I was so in need of some sun so we took the trek to the zoo for a family outing. Peter was the camera man and he took lots of pictures.
Lily on the concrete slide? It really doesn't make much of a slide.

Waiting for the main attraction the train.

There it is the only real reason for a visit to the zoo :)

This beauty was staring intently at me as if I might be her next snack.

They made a new area of the zoo special for me!

Oh well maybe I wasn't the tall wonder they were speaking of. This is Valentine and it's her birthday. She came over for a visit.

zoo

I got a years zoo membership for my birthday this year so we took advantage of our free entrance on this beautiful day. I imagine we will be spending a lot of our summer here.

At our zoo they just installed a merry go round which is very exciting since our mall is under renovation and the merry go round is MIA for awhile. Lily wanted to ride the zebra but was very gracious when she saw it had an occupant and rode the tiger.I wonder what he is upset about.

The play park.

So sweet!

Very serious about something!

Pretty Butterfly!

Ewww a spider!

Still her favorite animal at the zoo!