Album #11 (December 10, 2007 to July 21, 2008)
Album #11 (December 10, 2007 to July 21, 2008)
These photos start with the Christmas Season of 2007, cover the trips to New Orleans in early June of 2008 and to the Birmingham Zoo in late June of 2008. (Please note that the Birmingham Zoo tries as much as possible to exhibit animals in their natural environments and near other animals from the same environment. You will notice this especially in the pix of the lions -- gazelles, zebras, kudus, and giraffes are housed nearby the lions -- and the gorilla -- who is displayed near a cave on a mountainside. Hint: Carter O. Dunbar is almost ready to visit the Zoo.) After the Zoo there are photos taken during our July 2008 visit to Gatlinburg for the Applause National Talent Competition. The album ends with a few pictures taken in Tuscaloosa while we were visiting Thom, a picture of Dennis Berg in a Buddhist monastery, and a couple of shots of Carter O'Rourke Dunbar.
Another View of the Gorilla (June 27, 2008)
Another View of the Gorilla (June 27, 2008) 
 
Apparently the gorilla got tired of being stared at. Here he has just turned his back on the crowd and stomped off into his cave. (Notice, please, that this guy ha already started developing the silvery-grey hairs on his back that lead to alpha male gorillas being called "silver-backs.")