Gallery Fridays...

While there are numerous, obvious reasons why Friday is quite possibly the best day of the week...until Sunday...I invite you to add another reason to the list. The Guardian (the British paper that I read) has an awesome "Week in Wildlife" picture gallery that they update every Friday. The quality of the pictures is excellent. They frequently show endangered species of animals and plants. They also frequently have pictures that are flat out hysterical. Here is a sampling of why I LIVE for this gallery on Fridays

from this week's gallery

"Macaque monkeys in Lopburi, north of Bangkok. Thailand started a birth control programme to sterilise male monkeys in the famous monkey town"


"'Footprints'. The entry for the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 for the One Earth Award category. This and nearly 100 other winning images will go on display at the Natural History Museum in London on 23 October"

last week's gallery

"Two-week-old Ruffles, the red ruffed lemur, investigates a pear at Lemur Land in Blair Drummond safari park in Scotland. It is the first of the endangered species to be born at the park"


"A female hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) and her baby in the ape house of the Hellabrunn zoo, Munich, Germany. The natural habitat for the species can be found in Africa, Saudi Arabia and Yemen"