SATURDAY MORNING AT THE BIRD FEEDER, POST NO. 2

ELEPHANT SCULPTURE AT NORFOLK ZOO, VIRGINIA

This was taken on a visit to the Norfolk Zoo in Virginia, in September 2012.  Another favorite animal of mine, I was delighted with the life-size sculpture of the elephant at the entrance.  The person who created this masterpiece is Matthew Gray Palmer, who received its commission after competing with 70 other artists in 2008.  He called it "All Things Within All Things".

A butterfly on the end of the elephant's trunk can be made out quite clearly, and its wings are shaped like elephants.  If you look closely at the sculpture, there are 10,000 butterflies that make the shape of the elephant.  It stands 10 feet tall, 16 feet long and 7 feet wide and weighs 800 pounds, and took more than 2,000 hours and six months to complete.  It really is amazing to look at.

A fun website, Roadside America, can be found at this link where you will see another picture of the elephant.

I will leave you with two whimsical quotes.

"I meant what I said and I said what I meant, an elephant's faithful one hundred percent."

~Dr. Seuss~

and my personal favorite

"I have a memory like an elephant, in fact elephants often consult me."

~Noel Coward~

Thanks for looking and enjoy your week.

A CHANGE OF PACE TODAY - ELEPHANTS!

(Pictures are from pixabay.com)

Hello Everyone, 

These are fun videos to watch for animal lovers.  They are about one elephant herd in Zambia at the Mfuwe Lodge.  
All I'm saying is the mango orchard was there before the lodge!  

You may need to skip out of the adverts at the front of the video.  They change every time I look, and if there are any pop-ups just 'x' out.

The first video not shows other wildlife in that area.

https://youtu.be/2oYQ44o3fqk

Next, at one point the baby elephant decides to take a nap in the foyer and the whole herd stops in its tracks and waits for the baby to wake up.

https://youtu.be/K5D3BwZOlCo

and

https://youtu.be/z5EsHnI03zA

I have several videos of this amazing spectacle.  I loved every one but picked these to share today.  If you want to see the others you can just do a search for 'the elephants at Mfuwe Lodge' at YouTube.com 

The last one is one taken by a tourist.  Guess who came to breakfast?  They - the tourists - looked a little worried.  

https://youtu.be/6BAFityWg7A

Not only elephants roam through Mfuwe Lodge.  A pride of lions have been known to be uninvited guests also.   

For wildlife lovers everywhere!

Enjoy and I hope your days are good ones.

TODAY'S FLOWERS # 389 - March 4th, 2016

Today's Flowers opens up on Friday at 12.00 a.m., and closes the following Thursday at 11.00 p.m.   More information about this meme can be found here.

I am still sharing flowers I found while on vacation in December 2015 and January 2016.

Today's Flowers was created by Luiz Santilli, Jr. Thank you Luiz!  I have been its host for quite a while now. 

 
I am also linking with the following memes as they become available, with my thanks to our hosts.  Please click on their names to visit other participants.

Hetty at Tuinverhalen (Garden Stories)
Nick at Floral Friday Fotos
Aquariann at Flower Friday
Judith at Mosaic Monday