Category Archives: Forest Park
Catch-up
Ishmael watches pool with Dennis, 12/14/2013. Waiting for the St. Louis Chamber Chorus at St. Lukes, 12/22/2013. Forest Park, 12/26/2013.
Posted in cats, Forest Park, Winter
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On a walk around the frozen lake just now I saw a muskrat eating something in the grass, or maybe the grass itself. He’d emerged from a hole in the ice near the shore, and that’s where he went back … Continue reading
On Friday the turtles were sunning in the park. The fall colors have just popped this last week, after the Cardinals lost the series. A neighbor told me it always rains after they lose, and it did this year anyway!
Posted in Fall, Forest Park
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Catch-up
This evening I discovered on my camera pictures I’d forgotten I’d taken in the focused excitement of composing another grant since our return from Door County. We did get to the arboretum once in late September, where the glade was … Continue reading
Posted in Arboretum, Fall, Forest Park
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Go Cards!
As I write this the Cardinals are winning against the Pirates, yay! We went for a walk in the park this morning, it’s very hot and humid. Here is what we saw- Rust on a cup plant Post-flower cup plant … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Forest Park, insects
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August, belated
From August 14, a walk in the park with Chunzi And from the arboretum last week (August 18) Mary Isabelle’s companions are becoming more sparse with the end of summer, but her hazelnut tree is bearing fruit. … Continue reading
Posted in Arboretum, Flowers, Forest Park, insects, Summer
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Forest Park Sunday
Lightning-struck cottonwood Green heron and kingfisher sitting in a tree Pond that kingfishers were flying and chattering around- It looked like flight school, maybe, with an older kingfisher leading the younger one around and aound andaround in … Continue reading
Posted in Forest Park, Summer
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Mid-day walk: goldfinches, great blue heron fishing, king martins, purple martins, cricket sounds, fall sounds and light, drier than a weeks ago, grasses, tiger swallowtail and lots of bees in the blazing star, bumblebees in the mallow. See the … Continue reading
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Morning’s ride
I saw: Squirrel beer, dead mink, goldfinch, pimple-back, pine. And single men by them selves in beat up cars. A squirrel sucking the gumption out of a beer bottle lying beside the road. A dead mink beside the path. There … Continue reading
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