Happy Veterans Day.  We have the day off, but I still took a moment to internally thank all of our veterans — and those who care for them when they come back home.

Around 9 o’clock I took Sergeant Margie over to the WPA Rock Garden and duck pond and we walked around there for about 2 hours.  There was a lot of traffic around there today; parents who had the day off took their kids to the zoo and Fairy Tale Town which share the same parking area as the garden.  Despite all the cars around, I only saw two other people in the Rock Garden, and just a handful of people around the duck pond.  We chatted with a chatted squirrel for a little while; and I got some “fall color” shots of the trees around the pond…  After we did the full circle around the pond, we headed back to the car.