Lisa's Zoo Photos

Today was our trip to the zoo. As I predicted, Lisa took some really great photos!

Here is one of the red panda. We've never seen it very active before, but today it was pacing around up and down the tree in its enclosure.

Here is a meerkat poking his head up.

We spent a lot of time in the butterfly garden, where the bumblebees made Evalyn nervous. This photo could be a post card. Beautiful!

This grizzly bear walked all the way across his enclosure (which is huge) to find the little piece of wood he's nosing in this photo, then brought it back in his teeth and put it in the water to play with. The bears are endlessly fascinating to me. It looks as though they've been digging a den; there's a big hole with a huge mound of fresh red earth in front of it, right out in the middle of the enclosure.

It was great to spend the day doing fun stuff with my family! I'm a lucky guy and I know it!

Next week, I'll tell you about the new songs I'll be working on, I have a performance at the Bartlesville Public Library (Friday 8/10 at 6:30 PM), and hopefully I'll be able to reveal something about a brand new project I'm launching... Please stay tuned!

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh, My!

Today was Evalyn's kindergarten field trip to the Oklahoma City Zoo! Lisa and I volunteered to go help corral the kids. Amazingly, there were enough parents there for each to be in charge of just one or two kids. Our little group had three adults and three children.

Evalyn's favorite part was watching the bats in the new Oklahoma Trails exhibit. Mine and Lisa's was watching a grizzly bear swimming around in the water, playing with a tree branch. We also saw the herpetorium (snake house), some big cats, elephants, gorillas, and the girls stopped to play with... rolypolys! Never mind that we have them all over our driveway at home.

Evalyn and I have a little tradition of singing the kookaburra song to the kookaburra whenever we come to its cage. You know, the one that goes "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree / Merry merry king of the bush is he / Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra / Save some gum for me!" Today we sang it together as a round - it sounded really great!

Nothing else to report music-wise today. If you pre-ordered the Get a Clue CD, you should be receiving it soon if you haven't already! Let me know what you think!