So this happened....

I see this pair of cardinals a lot out my kitchen window...

Wildlife adventures are unpredictable.

We hadn't seen it for so long.

The thermometer said 6 degrees when I woke up this morning.  That's cold! 

There's nothing like waking up to a world blanketed with brilliant soft snow.

There is only one road into/out of the Pantanal...the Transpantaneira Highway, a rough dirt road with 140 bridges.

Of all the hundreds of spectacular birds that we saw, when I remember our trip to the Pantanal I will always think of the gorgeous hyacinth macaws.

Yep...that's a jaguar laying alongside the river just after daybreak the next morning.

This magnificent cat is the reason we decided to go to the Pantanal in the first place.