With American Idol now over and me still watching the finale in bits and pieces, I need something to fill up the lost inches of screen space on this blog.

This week, it’s a special photography themed week. I visited the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, NJ over the weekend. Each day, I’ll post a new pic, starting with:

I’m not going to sit here and debate zoo practices. I see those arguments come up in photography magazines and on-line forums anytime a pic from a zoo shows up. I’m just here to share pics. That said, this parrot looked pretty ticked off, and eyed everyone suspiciously.

On the other hand, it’s a parrot. Perhaps I’m over-anthropomorphizing him. (Or her.)

Perhaps I should have just done a pirate joke here.  Arrrrr….