Reptile Zoo

We saw a man named Jim Harrison from the Reptile Zoo in Kentucky last week. He takes care of the reptiles and also extracts venom from the snakes. The venom is being used for cancer and stroke research. Jim has been bitten 19 times from snakes. He has been pronounced clinically dead twice on the operating table from venomous snake bites. They were able to bring him back to life. We learned that only snakes and lizards are reptiles. Alligators are in their own class. The photo to the left is an Eastern Diamondback snake. You can go to this video clip and learn more... http://www.kyreptilezoo.org/?Your_Visit

Great Blue Heron & Quote on Nature

Charlotte Mason Quote on Nature--
"It would be well if we all persons in authority, parents and all who act for parents, could make up our minds that there is no sort of knowledge to be got in these early years so valuable to children as that which they get for themselves of the world they live in. Let them once get in touch with Nature, and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through life. We were all meant to be naturalists, each in his degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things." --Charlotte Mason, Vol.1, p. 61

The Great Blue Heron posed long enough for us to get this photo. What a powerful and gorgeous bird!