Location Taken: Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival
Time Taken: May 2011
Suddenly, a llama in a silly haircut!
Or perhaps it’s an alpaca. They look rather similar, and alpaca are more commonly kept for their wool than llamas are. And this was at a wool festival. Hence the silly haircut, since they sheered this naturally fluffy llama for the festival.
But my memories say it was a llama, so I shall declare it to be a llama!
Llama llama llama llama!
Location Taken: Savage, Maryland
Time Taken: December 2009
Oh, is this what was puzzling the elk in yesterday’s photo so much.
A silly dog with her head shoved into a snowbank.
She’s looking for a ball, you know. And then she’s going to throw it up in the air and catch it a few times.
And then roll around in the snow some more.
Such a silly dog.
Location Taken: Yellowstone National Park
Time Taken: October 2012
Ok, we’ve zoomed in a bit further from yesterday’s photo, and now the elk are really obvious!
Camouflage only works so well, guys. But then, you probably know that, since you’re an elk, and you’re watching the world around you really closely while your buddy eats.
Meanwhile, there’s this head on your back, but then, what are relatives for aside from bothering you?
Herds tend to be made up of relatives, you know. It’s easy to hang around people if you were raised among them. And well, you know how irritating that older sister or that one uncle or the bratty cousin can be. It’s probably just as bad for other species.
Well, aside from the fact that your brother doesn’t seem like quite as much a pain as, say, getting eaten by wolves. It’s all relative, you know.
Location Taken: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Time Taken: October 2012
The animals in this photo are a lot easier to see than the ones in yesterday’s photo. But it’s still not obvious.
It’s not because of distance this time. It’s because of camouflaging. The elk in this photo are nearly the same color as the dry grass of the hill they’re grazing on.
Nearly being the key word. Once you spot them, they’re easy to find again, after all. But it takes that crucial parsing of the pixels, separating out which ones belong to grass and which ones to an elk butt.
It’s sort of like figuring out an anagram, like OCASH. Once you realize it’s “CHAOS”, it’s easy, but until then, you just see “Oh, Cash!”
