Margaret and I visited Epcot this afternoon – we’d hoped it wasn’t too busy but it turned out to be the last weekend of the ever longer running Food & Wine Festival so it was very busy. But we had fast passes for Living With The Land and Soarin’, so that’s what we did.
We visited the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation this evening for a short talk and exhibit about “Selling Sunshine“, the promotion of Florida and especially of citrus crops – mostly in the past since the business is disappearing these days (after all, we live where once were citrus groves!)
Some very interesting “posters” mostly magazine adverts from many years ago; it’s clear that claims made then would not be acceptable today!
A small display of advertising “trinkets” from days past, too:
Today Margaret and I returned to the Avian Reconditioning Center for their annual Fall Festival; once again lots of great close-up views of Owls, Eagles, and other raptors.
The purpose of the ARC is to rehabilitate injured and orphaned birds, and release them back to the wild – those birds have minimal human contact and we don’t get to see them.
The birds we see are too injured to be safely returned to the wild – some have lost an eye, or broken a wing beyond repair; one eagle we saw today had had lime disease and could no longer catch prey in the wild.
Even with all these impressive photos of eagles and other birds, my personal favorite still is the great horned owl 🙂
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