While back in the states visiting my parents, we went up to Mena, Arkansas for a walk and some photo taking. The day could not have been better and we got some really good pictures. We went up into the national park there, as well as around town. There’s an old train station museum in town that was interesting (at least from the outside, we were too late to go inside).
Something rather notable about the Houston Zoo, to me, was the number of birds on display. Their collection seems to be considerably larger than most other zoos I have been to. Unfortunately, the cage design made it difficult to get good pictures.
One of our visits in Houston was to the Zoo. The zoo is very nice and we arrived mid-afternoon and started in the Aquarium near the entrance. Other parts of the zoo to follow.
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In addition to the mineral display, the Houston Science and Natural History Museum has a large butterfly atrium. They have a large variety of butterflies flying around, year round.
As usual, Pristina celebrated the coming of the New Year not with one massive display of fireworks, like we would in the U.S., but instead with many displays all across the town. The combined display tends to be quite impressive, but also nearly impossible to capture on camera. I had some extra difficulty this year in that the street light across the street from my balcony was on and bright as could be. Most of the pictures have a lens flare across them because of this.
