elephants and real, from-the-clouds snow

Zorro left. I am so sad without him. He found out that a kid in my class was going to Colorado for a week and he asked to go. At first I told him no, that he's too young to go on such a far away trip by himself. But then he told me that he wanted to see real snow. I reminded him that he already went to Wintergreen last year and saw snow. He said that he wanted to see real, FROM-THE-CLOUDS snow so that other snow didn't count. And he also pointed out that he's a global fox who travels internationally, so clearly he can handle a little skiing trip to Colorado. So I told him he could go. He's coming back on Friday but that seems like so far away from now. What will I do without him????

In other news, Miguel, Peter, the Adams, and I went to see this National Geographic photographer speak at PVCC last night. He showed us all of his photos of elephants in Africa and they were amazing. It was totally cool and the photographer was really funny! His name is Michael Nichols and he does lots of work for National Geographic! This is one of his beautiful pictures! He talked a lot about helping to save the elephants there. He gave us this website to go to if you're interested in helping:  www.savetheelephants.org.