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This weekend we went to White Rock Lake on both Saturday and Sunday because the weather was just perfect. We love to walk around the lake. On Saturday there was a lot of wildlife out. We saw a ton of ducks, cranes and the coolest caterpillars. Sadly, I did not have the camera on Saturday.

Sunday I took the camera so that I could work on an assignment for my photography class. This week we were to work on taking photos of moving objects. One photo was supposed to use a panning technique where you follow the moving object resulting inthe object being clear and the background blurry. Then i did one with the camera on a tripod so that the background was clear and the object was blurred. One ended up with both blurry but I thought it looked cool anyway.

Today we went to the Dallas Zoo with Tess and Louis, Meg and Hannah. It was a perfect day for it. The weather was not too hot and not too cool. It was sunny. A welcome day after storms on and off for the past few weeks. I decided to buy a membership so I will be returning to the Zoo many more times this year.

It was a really fun group because the three kids were born within one month. They were all walking, but not running so they were equally curious and able to explore. I think their favorite part was playing in the dirt and rocks though they really enjoyed looking at the animals too. I think the chimps were the most fun because they moved a lot.

 We did not see many four-legged creatures like lions and tigers today but I wondered at what age Katherine will really be able to distinguish between all of the different animals. If you think about it, many animals are really are quite similar in that they walk on four legs, have a tail and sharp teeth. How really do you explain the difference between a dog and a cat to a kid? We read tons of books with animals but at what point does she take a 2-D animal from a book and apply it to a 3-D animal at the zoo? Hmmmm…just some thoughts. Regardless of knowing the animals, Katherine had fun and we would tell the kids the names of the animals (even those we had to look at the signs to know).

It’s funny, we spend aver three hours looking at all of the animals, but most of my pictures were of the kids.