Whoops! - Picture of the Week

We had such an amazingly good day on Saturday at the Japanese Garden and then canoeing on the waterways in the Arboretum that I just plumb forgot about posting a pic o' the week!

The weather was perfect for the outing that we'd planned for a few weeks before it actually came to fruition. Sarah was a little under the weather but was good enough to go out for the day, she had been looking forward to it too and wasn't about to miss it for a little cold.

I ended up taking nearly 800 pics so I have quite a few I could choose from, but I think I'll post one of the critters that we so hoped to get good shots of. It was cool, when we got somewhere close to a group of birds, turtles or whatnot you could hear all this camera clicking going on as our canoe simply drifted.

I was concerned when we began to paddle toward these 2 that we were headed for some really shallow water but it turned out that they were taking advantage of a piece of flotsam (or maybe it was jetsam?), a square object of some sort.  They posed for us and as we approached one of them swam out to meet us.

Here's a link to our smugmug to view more of the awesome stuff we had a blast getting!