Ramblings in the Southeast

I'm in Arizona now, but here are some pix from the southeast a couple weeks ago.  JR and Liz took me to an animal rehab zoo near Miami.  It was very cool in that you got to interact with the animals.  This is Orion, a wolf who was raised in captivity.  His owner was unable to continue caring for him, so he would up here.  He's a sweet wolf...I gave him a belly rub!

This is how Florida looked four hundred years ago, when Ponce de Leon and other explorers saw it for the first time and the local Indians presided.  This stretch of unspoiled Atlantic beach, one of the few left, is between Jacksonville and St Augustine.

Now I'm in Savannah, near Forsyth Park.  Elegant Victorian mansions preside, with fine gnarly oaks.

The city had storm damage from Hurricane Matthew.

The Lizards thought they were at home!  Savannah's Monterey Square is actually misspelled...it was named in commemoration of a US victory during the Mexican War near Monterrey, Mexico.

More fine Savannah homes.

This fountain in Forsyth Park had been dyed purple, for some reason.

A fallen tree is backed by a monument to the fallen Confederate dead in Forsyth Park.