Inanimate Things at the Zoo

Just inside the entrance of the Cosley Zoo is the gift shop and zoo offices, taking up the left side of this picture, in an early 20th-century train station moved here at some point.

Next to it is a caboose. The world needs more loose cabooses here and there, so I'm always glad to see this one, though it's doubly nonfunctional right now in that it isn't rolling stock anymore, and because it's still closed for the winter.

Near the duck pond is an old-style windmill. It doesn't seem to power anything, but I might be wrong about that. Maybe it provides all of the ducks' electrical needs -- just a hint of the green-energy revolution ahead.

Animals? you ask. Are there any animals at this zoo besides the ducks? Yes indeed, but my photography skills are sore tested by moving animals. The zoo features goats, horses, llama, deer, birds of prey and more, though on Saturday some of them were elsewhere for the winter. The pig and chicken pens, empty of animals, looked like they were being renovated. That or the zoo staff got through the long, hard winter this year however they could.