African addition

I realize it has been a while since I posted, but other things have gotten in the way. I just wanted to post this picture of the shelf I built to display one of the items I brought back from a souvenir shop just outside of the Masi Mara game preserve in Kenya in 2006. I was amazed at the elephants (this breed of elephant is called the African Savanna Elephant) , but I am convinced that the Masi Giraffe is the worlds most elegant animal. The picture of the Masi Giraffe was taken on safari in 2004.

I tell folks this is a Canadian Giraffe because it has a distinctive marking on it's right shoulder that looks very much like a maple leaf, as in the Canadian Maple Leafs. It might look a little like western Canada in the summer, but it is not quite the climate for giraffes, regardless of the species. You may have to enlarge the photo to see the leaf.