Wake Up, Then Look At This Picture. THEN With A Huge Grin, Face Friday!  Photo Lenny Lensworth Frieling

More Boulder Magic is based on location when we look into the Denver Zoo. Easy drive, easy parking, reasonable prices, especially memberships on sale, and a slew of slivering slimy savvy sorts of animals from all over the world. With a focus on protecting the more threatened animal species, the habitats have been and are being built with the comfort and sanity of the animals in mind. Our Denver “guests” think that they are the audience and that we zoo visitors are the daily year ’round show. They are also FAMOUS FOR BEING FANS OF THE LADY BUFFS!!!

The Rainbow Lorikeet Parrot is one of the most fun and most colorful in the mixed flock of colors displayed by the Denver Zoo birds. I chose it for Friday morning because starting the day smiling just plain works better than waking up and starting the day without that most important piece of clothing, the smile.

 

blue green and orange birdsParrots, Like Many Other Birds, Are Very Affectionate.

Our rescue adopt green-cheeked conure parrot seems to have fallen in love with me. The challenges are that conures are known as “biters” more than most birds. And while Layla, our conure, does not bite often, if I don’t listen to her the first time or two she attempts to communicate something, I might get enough of a nip on a finger to leave an indentation or to even draw blood. Debi Dodge, wife and photographer for AboutBoulder, is a bird expert. Having worked with raptors including owls and eagles, she says that “Layla is the most difficult bird she’s ever worked with.” Fortunately her experience and animal magnetism is outlasting the bird’s biting remarks. I suspect the biting is to her just another word in her vocabulary and not an attack.

Actually, I suspect it is not bad manners, but just a way of Layla “raising her voice” to get the attention she’d been trying to get. More often than a nip, I’ll get a kiss from her. When she’s on my shoulder and kisses my ear, I admit it is quite challenging for me to not panic. My ear has not yet been bitten. I get VERY nervous when she manages to crawl from my shoulder, down my flannel shirt color, and under the shirt going down my arm. If that does not keep you awake, you’re not getting enough sleep!!!

May the wind be over your port bow, and may your suntan lotion be thick.

 

Leonard Frieling
  • Senior Counsel Emeritus to the Boulder Law firm Dolan + Zimmerman LLP : (720)-610-0951
  • Former Judge
  • Photographer of the Year, AboutBoulder 2023
  • First Chair and Originator of the Colorado Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Committee, a National first.
  • Previous Chair, Boulder Criminal Defense Bar (8 years)
  • Twice chair Executive Counsel, Colorado Bar Association Criminal Law Section
  • NORML Distinguished Counsel Circle
  • Life Member, NORML Legal Committee
  • Life Member, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
  • Board Member Emeritus, Colorado NORML
  • Chair, Colorado NORML, 7 years including during the successful effort to legalize recreational pot in Colorado
  • Media work, including episodes of Fox’s Power of Attorney, well in excess of many hundreds media interviews, appearances, articles, and podcasts, including co-hosting Time For Hemp for two years.
  • Board member, Author, and Editor for Criminal Law Articles for the Colorado Lawyer, primary publication of the Colorado Bar Assoc. 7 Years, in addition to having 2 Colorado Lawyer cover photos, and numerous articles for the Colorado Lawyer monthly publication.
  • LEAP Speaker, multi-published author, University lectures Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, Denver University Law School, Univ. of New Mexico, Las Vegas NM, and many other schools at all levels.
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