all creatures great and small
As I checked my watch one more time while gazing at the displays in the reptile house, I knew I had to pack things up and leave soon because I still had some important banking things to do before days end. So after I finished capturing my last photo at the Staten Island zoo, I originally had planned to get home quickly. With that in mind my feet started to take me out the back gate where I could walk a scant 3 minutes to the #48 bus on Forest ave., and be home in 40 minutes or so. But somewhere between leaving the reptile house and the zoo's back gate my heart somehow managed to wrestle control of my body from my head, and coerce my feet into taking the 45 minute walk out the front gate, then through Clove Lake and finally out the other side of the park, for the group of buses that travel down Victory blvd.
The leisurely trip through the park was almost always good for at least a nice shot or two, but today as I approached the eastern edge of the park for home, I hadn't come up with a single shot. Again my head turned my feet towards the bus stop now within easy eyesight. Again my heart took over and led my feet around the bend where I knew wading birds favored, as they looked in the shallows for fish. A few moments later my head finally gave up fighting the lopsided battle with my heart.
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