In early July I visited the Potter Park Zoo with one of my closest friends. With as busy as we both are these days, we don’t get to spend much time together. But we’re both trying to make an effort so when she said she was going to be in Lansing on one of my Fridays off, I shuffled my plans around and made it happen. She had been planning to bring her two boys to the zoo and Potter Park is great for smaller kids. The Detroit Zoo is amazing, but it’s the kind of place you need to spend a whole day at to do it justice. And for two kids who aren’t yet in kindergarten, it’s just too much to tackle. You can spend a couple of hours at Potter Park and feel like you’ve seen most of it, and the boys had a blast. I took a ton of pictures of them too, but here are some of the ones I took for myself. Along with all of the animals, there are some pretty flowers and plants.
The animals were gorgeous too and I had fun playing with my zoom lens to get interesting texture shots of the peacocks that roamed the zoo and of the tigers. There were porcupines, a grey wolf, rhinos, a bald eagle, and otter. FYI, otter are VERY difficult to photograph. Sometime I am going to have to go back and take some pictures of them when I’m not helping wrangle two little boys who are at least as slippery as an otter!