A Wednesday Walk to Market Friday

This post will be a day late for Wednesday Walk sort of hosted by me, and a day late for Market Friday hosted by @dswigle

I say sort of hosted by me for the Wednesday Walk as I am just getting back into posting on here more regularly and because I havent been able to get out walking as much as i usually do.

So my apologies to those who have been posting regularly in the Wednesday Walk and been ignored by me while I have been away, I will try and make time to visit this weeks walk posts, but really have to think and decide if I can keep up hosting this or need to see if anyone else is interested in taking it over.

but for now let me get into this post

This post if for Wednesday walk challenge And Make me Smile Collaboration challenge, initially our collaboration was once a month but due to the popularity of it we have decided to make the collab a weekly thing :)

Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by me, the idea is to get out for a short walk and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start. And this is my entry for this week, but first, let me explain the challenge.

This is my post for the Wednesday Walk challenge hosted by myself, let me first explain the guidelines

Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of.

Your walk does not have to be on a Wednesday I just ask if possible to share your walk photos on a Wednesday.

Try and get a few shots not just one

Add a bit of a write up about where you walked

You can look for anything in general or decide on one subject you want to get shots off.

Make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss

Do a post with the shots you get on a Wednesday and tag it with #wednesdaywalk, also if you happen to join, please leave a link to your post in a comment on this post and I will try and visit them all, especially if its not one of the first 5 tags or I may miss seeing it .

Following me and re-Hiving the post so more see it would be appreciated but isn't a rule just a suggestion.

I am not strict on these rules and hence why they are called guidelines and not rules

I will try and visit, and upvote all who take part in the Wednesday Walk

So thats about the Walk how about market Friday

A post for Market Friday hosted by @dswigle, if you haven't followed her yet you should she is one of the kindest and most supportive people here on Hive, a comment from her is like a ray of sunshine on your page.
This is the one tag and daily challenge that I always make a point of joining, and also look through the posts of others that join the challenge and seeing markets from all around the world.

For this weeks post, I am stretching both challenges as this is a walk from last year, and perhaps well no p[perhaps stretching what is a market, but first a photo

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Now you may think OK this photo could be on a walk, which it is, but how does this relate to Market Friday, well this shot and the walk was around the Buttonwood Park here in New Bedford, now you pay to visit a Zoo so I say loosely it could be considered a market, and they did have a little shop, so even more a market.

The rest of the photos for this post will be ofan Elephant I saw there

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I looked up online about the elephants at the zoo and found out that there are two there, Ruth At 61 years old, and Emily,

I am not sure which one is in these photos so telling about them both

Emily is the larger of the two, weighs in at roughly 8,700 pounds while Ruth weighs around 6,400 pounds. These beautiful ladies receive about 150 lbs of hay, 20 lbs of grain, 20 lbs of produce and 25 – 100 lbs of browse (maple, bamboo, etc) each day!! Their favorite treats include alfalfa cubes, dried fruit, watermelon and sugar cane.

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I went for a mix of color and B&W shots of the Elephant whether it be Emily or Ruth, I at first thought it looked in a bad way, but they are a good age and that perhaps why they look a bit gaunt ( is that the right word) in a way

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I did enjoy the walk Lulu and I did around the Zoo and we have a season pass and plan to visit there a few times when it warms up here, Lulu loves it and its good for her to get out walking more.