Found growing near this humongous tree at San Diego Zoo.
Cee and my fabulous readers, have a great start to a new and last week of August 2022!
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singlikewildflowers
Welcome to my blog! My name is Esther and I'm so happy you are here. I'm an avid nature photographer and a daydreaming thinker. My posts revolve around photos of nature's beauty, homeschooling adventures with my 2 kids, sporadic reflections on my child's heart condition, Bible reading reflections, gardening feats, and other mish mash things. Hopefully you'll leave encouraged, pensive, or smiling at the simple things of life. Thank you for stopping by and hope you'll find some interesting posts to read!
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I love your flowers, but that tree is spectacular. 😀 😀
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Thank you Cee! That tree is spectacularly large and beautiful.
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That tree is very unusual looking!
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I wonder how long it’s been there. Trees can grow into so many shapes and sizes.
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It is like the Angel Oak tree in South Carolina – I’ve not seen it, but it is a tourist attraction as it is so old and because of the way it grows (wide). It has its own website for goodness sake, but here are a few factoids:
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The Angel Oak receives approximately 400,000 visitors each year. The tree is 65 feet high with a circumference of 25.5 feet, shading an area of 17,000 square feet.
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Trees get famous! I mentioned this before but I don’t remember if it was on WP, but Claude the albino crocodile at California Academy of Science has his own Instagram page?!
Will check out the Angel Oak.
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That is cool and there was an alligator in Key West who was like a “guard dog” at a little beachfront restaurant. It actually had a muzzle on it and was very tame, (the owner’s pet), but it had a tee-shirt with the name of the restaurant on it – just fun stuff, something we need in an age of so much down news.
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That’s fun and I’d probably go there just to see the alligator. Wow, brave owner to have an alligator as a pet. Great way to thwart thieves.
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Yes, it would be fun and I guess with a muzzle on it, it is free to roam and does not go after anyone. I found a story on the alligator and will send it to you to read and show the kids. I guess they use it to educate kids at schools about alligators too.
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Nice! This is entertaining and a good way to teach kids about alligators.
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Yes! Can you imagine if the owner walked that alligator into a classroom – all the squeals of delight and kids running to touch it?
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Squeals and howls of terror too! We have a snake person in San Jose who runs a snake farm and educational visits to libraries. We went to see his sessions 2 times; I have a picture of a giant yellow snake around my shoulders.
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Oh my – I would squeal at that believe me! I was at Lake Erie Metropark and in the woods on a path, when suddenly a foot-long snake slithered across the path and into the ground cover. Too quick to take a photo and my heat must’ve come out of my chest. That sounds like a cool picture of the snake though. I was in Parrot Jungle many years ago and you can have as many parrots as you want “loaded” on your outstretched arms and on your shoulder. I have a picture grimacing while trying to balance all the parrots.
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