The most beautiful clouds were in the sky on the way home from Animal Ark. Just had to stop and take a photo:

Daniel is really growing up. You can almost watch him grow on a daily basis. He’s also getting much more comfortable in his surroundings, and getting more curious about these strange beings that keep coming into his home.

This is a 7-shot (handheld) pano of the Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea. Taken from the top floor of the Hyatt Regency at the airport.

This is Emmy – she’s a black lab mix who was abandoned by her owners after being hit by a car. After being nursed back to the health, she was adopted by a wonderful couple who have doted on her the past few years. Sadly, she was diagnosed with cancer, and even after surgery, her prognosis is not good. Her owner had no good photos of her, so he asked me to do a portrait session with Emmy.

This is Milo – he’s a five year old Mountain Lion that lives at Animal Ark. Milo came to us when he was a few months old after being hit by a car (twice!) on Kingsbury Grade near Lake Tahoe. The badly injured kitten fortunately was picked up and rushed to a veterinarian. After several surgeries and months of care he healed up. But he could not be released back into the wild – he was separated from his mother before she could teach him how to hunt and fend for himself, so he is a permanent resident at Animal Ark.

Earlier this week I went with Animal Ark to a neighborhood elementary school to do a presentation about the Ark. About half the kids in both groups were sniffling. Guess what – I am a germ magnet and woke up with a cold this morning. Ugh!

I want to welcome you to my new, updated Website. This one is set up to be much easier to update and edit, so I’m planning on keeping the content fresh. I’ve never blogged before, and I’m generally not a very wordy person, but I will try to update this blog with new photos and other interesting things.

We’ll start with a photo of Santo the jaguar, who is coming to Animal Ark in the spring: