Zoo views vs. Wetlands views......

I went two places yesterday and after looking at my photos, decided they were interesting to compare.

First at the zoo we have the "mangy" camel family..... Papa......
Baby camel being hidden in the corner by mama.....

....but later on view! Isn't she adorable? Although the entire family looks likes someone attacked them with hedge clippers.


At the wetlands we find the "mangy" goose family.....

These molting teenage geese look just as bad as baby camel!

No one ever said the teenage years were "graceful".

Funny looking little things :-)

Then there are the birds.....

......peacocks in the tree at the zoo......

......Prothonotary Warbler in the tree at the wetlands.

I seemed to be "underneath" in both cases.

The plants....

Some interesting green leaves at the zoo.....with a touch of red

New leaves at the wetlands....with a touch of purple.

Animals...

A nice dry tortoise family at the zoo...

...a very wet turtle at the wetlands.

Flowers at both places.....

I love these exotic types at the zoo!

orchid

colorful....

.....strange.

At the wetlands.....

The meadow was full of these tall white flowers today.

....maybe not as exotic as an orchid, but one could get tired of exotic :-)

.....spikes....

...grape vines and flower heads.

Two very different places, but both have interesting things to see!

(p.s.....strangely enough, the zoo had both the fennel and that sweetspire bush that I posted yesterday! The bushes were all over the zoo and the smell of them was driving my allergies nuts. I don't think I would want to own one after smelling a whole lot of them together.)