Areguá, Paraguay

Small town outside Asunción apparently specialising in pottery ornaments







Disused railway station




By Ypacaraí Lake



I missed the Strawberry Festival, but had a strawberry dessert anyway



Bus to Asunción - 30km for US$0.60

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (2)

In a wooded part of the refuge today.
Came up behind a raccoon walking along the trail


It climbed a tree to get away from me (sorry for scaring it)


Downy Woodpecker


Hairy Woodpeckers (bigger and with a longer beak than the Downy)


Not sure about this. Looks a bit like a Nashville Warbler in my book, but not quite.


Not sure about this one either. Maybe a female bluebird.


This is a turtle!

Dallas

Dealey Plaza, site of JFK's assassination. The famous Grassy Knoll in the foreground and the former Texas School Book Depository behind.


Elm Street on the left. Kennedy's car was about where the black SUV in the middle lane is. Lee Harvey Oswald was at the rightmost sixth-floor window of the Book Depository (last floor but one of the building on the left).


Coldplay concert, AT&T Stadium. Great music and a fantastic show with illuminated wristbands and fireworks.

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Another beautiful Sunday morning in the Twin Cities. Went taking nature pictures along the Hog Back Ridge Trail.

A number of egrets:



This one caught a fish just as my view got obstructed!



Great Blue Heron


Female Cardinal


Blue Jay


American Bittern (hiding) and Green Heron



Cormorant


Deer

Wood Lake Nature Center

Beautiful sunny morning in this park sandwiched between Interstate 35W and planes taking off from MSP. No flash used for any of these photos.

Lots of Mallards


Wood Duck in a pond of algae


Cormorants



Coypu swimming and another one eating (which is what they mostly do)



American Goldfinch


Tree Swallow


Tiny Turtle dangling a leg in the water

Great Blue Heron

Squirrel quicker than me


Rabbit trying to hide