Kaleigh and Gavin are my grandkids. I love to visit them. They live near a good zoo, so we usually spend a day there when I visit. This blog records, via my trusty cellphone camera, a happy day in late February, 2011.
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| This is Kaleigh, adding a Bengal tiger to her journal. These seriously endangered cats have fired her imagination. |
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| This is Gavin, adding a black rhino to his journal | . |
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| Gavin's main goal for the day, though, was to photograph the trip to the zoo, using a digital camera with a tripod. Mom (Leah) watches as Gavin begins to figure out the engineering of the tripod. |
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| Kaleigh wants a piece of the action. |
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| Photographer and model. He did shoot animals, too. He carried his own equipment all day. |
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| Leah early learned the value of recording life events via still and video photography, journaling, drawing, and painting, and has passed that interest along to her children. She asked all of us to sketch six animals. |
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| In the zoo's butterfly house. |
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| Gavin and Kaleigh have also been encouraged to study what they see; in this case, butterflies in various stages of development. |
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| Setting up for the black rhino. |
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| Got him! At this point, Leah had Gavin switch to drawing, which brought his observations of animals to a new level of awareness. |
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| Where are those hippos? |
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| Last shot of the day, Kaleigh with a statuesque cobra. |
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