Thursday, April 30, 2020

Zig Zag Zoo #AtoZChallenge

It's the last day of April, meaning it is the last day of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  I've gotten through another Challenge.

Now to Zero in and create this last post.

I've chosen Zoo more than once for my final A to Z post.  I was supposed to be showing my readers America the Beautiful as my theme so I will start with a couple of art photos from the Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Columbia, South Carolina.  It's closed, but I can bring you there through photos.  We are so fortunate to have the Internet.

Big cat.

"Recycled Life"

These photos were taken the day after the August, 2017 total eclipse of the sun and by mid morning, this Northern blogger (upstate New York) was quite wilted.  But the people of South Carolina know how to deal with heat they describe as being five degrees cooler than hell (yes, I heard that expression).  Every so often we would walk through misters that would cool us down.  But we didn't make it much past noon.

I want to return one day - maybe in March.

What I love is how people are coming up with imaginative ways to deal with our present situation.  The Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Gardens is offering a pickup Mothers Day meal for four, complete with a bottle of Prosceco and an (unspecified) pollinator plant.

So what about the zig zagging?

That's what spouse and I find ourselves doing when we try to walk for exercise on our rare beautiful sunny days (usually it's cold, or windy, or gloomy, or all three). If everyone else is out, keeping social distance becomes an exercise in planning and changing directions.
Binghamton, New York

But it's worth the zig-zag, just to get a glimpse of spring.

"Z" day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.

Thank you for following part of, or maybe even all of, my journey through the alphabet.

11 comments:

  1. Congratulations on finishing the challenge.
    Spring? It sure is taking its time coming this year.

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  2. Sounds like a beautiful zoo. And yes, zig zagging is becoming a new skill ;)
    Congratulations for ending the challenge, and for sharing those pretty photos of your country!
    Z is for Zakka

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  3. Yeah, spring is getting off to a slow start this year.

    Good job on the challenge

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  4. Congratulation on finishing the A to Z Challenge! I can relate to your passage about the heat down south. I went to New Orleans once in October, and it was the first time that I could feel my scalp sweating! Also identify with the zig zag walking -- doing quite a bit of it here in densely populated NYC. But as you say, it's worth it to be out in nature!

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  5. Lovely photos! So looking forward to seeing spring blossoms here!
    The snow is gone finally and I think everyone in our town is walking or riding in the (very) welcome sunshine. When I walk, I am constantly doing the zig-zag as well. But just to be out . . .

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  6. Congratulatrions on completing the A to Z Challenge! You posted a lot of really great pictures!

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  7. I'm enjoying zoo and aquarium videos where they're letting the critters move about the complex. The other day I saw flamingos visiting the penguin enclosure.

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  8. Alana,

    Congrats on crossing the A to Z finish line, my friend! I'd love to go back to our zoo. It's been years since we've been and I know this year is going to be out as we would've wanted to it while schools are in session. Oh well, I'll cross my fingers for next year. Today I did some zigzagging across town from one appointment to the next. I was finally able to knock two off and I have two more next week. Let's hope in the coming weeks a resurge in this virus doesn't happen. DH is working at home until at least June. His office will reevaluate things as time draws near. I like having him at home. Have a good evening. It's now time to for a long rest.

    Cathy's Pinup Girl Art Sketch Series 'Z'

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  9. We are in no zig-zag rule now. Only essential visit to grocery. Hope remdesvir proves its early promise and more infected recover. Even zoo animals got it. It seems.
    Congratulations. You are A to Z Completion Blogger.
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