Actress and humanitarian Susan Sarandon hugs a llama pal for Heifer International (Can anyone resist a marketing campaign that features these photogenic Andean camelids?)
This is a charity project I like.
Actress Susan Sarandon is promoting an organization that battles world hunger by donating dairy cows and other farm animals to subsistence farmers. It’s a simple idea and one that really can [...]
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Cute llama pix are a needed tonic to the barrage of awfulness in today’s world.
A self-professed llama freak, from Eugene, Oregon, has asked for more camelids on this site.
Of course, I oblige.
Figure 1: Munching alpaca at Jose & Daniela’s wedding, photo c. Barbara Drake 2008
In March, El Fotografo, El Hijo and I went to a wedding in Arequipa, an old colonial city in southern Peru. The wedding reception was held at a sort of an ecological/conservation site, which included a mini farm with typical Peruvian animals: llamas, alpacas, sheep and a lone vicuna. There were about 250 people at the [...]