WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV

Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “an unusual POV (point of view)”. Here’s what a trip to the San Diego zoo looks like from my kids’ perspective.

First we had a chance to see a 14-year old Timber wolf. It felt great to be so close to such an amazing animal.

Timber wolf

Then we stumbled upon this mama peacock who was walking around the zoo with her little baby peacocks. A first experience for all of us.

Baby peacocks

At the children’s zoo, we saw the results of baking a bread house with the mice inside. :-)  We tried really hard to see the rest of their bodies but they wouldn’t budge. I guess it was comfortable in there.

Mice in bread house

Finally we stopped by the panda exhibit. While baby panda was sleeping high up in the trees, his mom was pigging out on bamboo –  one bamboo shot in each paw, alternating her munching from one to the other. You can see pandas have a hard life at the San Diego zoo.

Panda eating bamboo at the San Diego zoo

That’s it for our little trip from last week!

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Kiss

We kiss and hug a lot at our house. No, I don’t have any cute kissing photos to share with you, but this love note should prove my point. It’s taped to our kitchen cabinet along with a few other love notes I shared in yesterday’s post on Valentine’s Day.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Kiss – love note with hugs and kisses

Now, if you’re looking for a photo of a very passionate kiss, you’ve come to the right place. I posted it on this blog a couple of years ago and it fits this WordPress weekly photo challenge theme perfectly.

If you’ve never seen killer whales kissing, this is what it looks like. Yes, these orcas are French kissing! And they did this for about 10 minutes the day I took this photo. Thank you, SeaWorld San Diego, for showing me that tongue kissing is so popular among marine mammals. I had no idea. You can click on the photo to see this kiss from up close.

For more photos of nature and animals, hop on to my photography website.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Kiss – killer whales kissing at SeaWorld

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home

This used to be my home.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home- Paris

Now this is my home.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home- San Diego beach

Home is where we make French desserts.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – French crepes

Home is where we also make American desserts.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – American brownie

Home is where we draw every day.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – where we draw every day

Home is where we read every day, so we can go on faraway travels, away from home.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – where we read every day

Home is where we enjoy imaginary play, such as building our own secret fortress.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home secret fort

Home is where we play with a bag full of Lego pieces…

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – Lego bag

And we build our own Lego creations like this one…

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – Lego creation

Or this one.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – Lego creation

Home is where I sip my tea every day while I work, write, edit photos and enjoy watching my kids play and grow.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home – Cup of tea

Home is where the heart is.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Home is where the heart is

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Big

It must be in our nature to like “big”. Early on in life, little kids grab the big toys, ask for the bigger piece of cake and the big balloon, and they want to be bigger themselves. It doesn’t seem to get any better as we move into adulthood. We like big TVs, big trucks, big homes, big boobs…When I visited the U.S. for the first time as a teenager, I was shocked to see how much bigger everything was compared to France. Bigger buildings, bigger roads, bigger cars, bigger food portions, bigger people… I admit it was a culture shock. Even today, I can still get surprised.

Here are a few examples of “big” in my life, sorted by size. Do you like bigger or smaller things?

BIG – kid-size Knufflebunny, when we went to see Mo Willems and listen to him read his books. That was a lot of fun.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: big – big Knufflebunny

BIGGER – this pelican at the San Diego Safari Park. A little spooky… I can only imagine how huge pterodactyls looked.

WordPress photo challenge: big pelican at the San Diego Safari Park

BIGGEST – the Eiffel Tower, of course!

WordPress photo challenge: big – the Eiffel Tower in Paris