Hannibal

Just about everyone in Hannibal passes through Java Jive, the First Coffee Shop West of the Mississippi. It's a great spot.

Hannibal

Trains cross the river to and from Illinois as well as up and down the river.

Hannibal

We spend a week in Hannibal now and then in connection with Ed's work.  

This is some of the stuff of towboating.  Here this small towboat is tied up at its Hannibal dock. It shuttles barges in the area.

Current River

We are canoe enthusiasts and were sad to leave our familiar Adirondack lakes when we moved to Missouri.

We soon learned that Missouri has beautiful, clear swift rivers including three designated and protected riverways, the Current and Jacks Fork (Ozark National Scenic Riverways), and the Eleven Point (National Wild and Scenic River).

We made an exploratory trip to that southern region to test the distance, learn more about the area, and most important, to give Joli some river time.

This is a popular area, and we could see that there were hundreds of people in canoes on the rivers on a warm July Saturday.

We will go back with our canoes this fall when things are quieter. Meanwhile we will explore the Bourbeurse, Gasconade and Meramec closer to home in coming weekends. They will also surely be busy as the summer heat builds.

Here is Round Spring, at the head of a tributary of the Current River.

Our glasses fogged up when we got out of the car and stepped into the humid air of the river bottomland.

Gateway Arch

Gateway Arch

tangent

St. Louis: around town

Citygarden will only become more beautiful as the multitude of glorious plantings of Missouri natives matures.

Palenque

1975

Palenque is a Maya ruin of archeo-logical significance situated right on the geographic and botanic line between the mountains of Chiapas and the Yucatan lowlands.

Dense jungle and clear mountain streams surround the site. The weather can be dramatic, and the light was always interesting.

In 1987 Palenque became a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Today and the last two days I've posted photos from earlier travels. I think it is interesting to see what was possible before the digital revolution. Film was challenging. It made me concentrate in a different way.

Ios

1968

With my sister in Greece after she finished up her junior year abroad.

From Piraeus we took an overnight ferry to Ios, a smaller island in the Cyclades south east of Athens.  We slept a short night on deck and were brought ashore on a small launch in the dark.

Ios was quiet and people were friendly.  

I read that it is known for being a party island now.  Too bad.

This picture was an early morning stroke of luck, taken with a Hawkeye Instamatic.

Athens

1968

Greece, with my sister

One could walk up to and on the Parthenon

Kodak Hawkeye Instamatic camera

Missouri Botanical Garden

Rainy day in the Japanese garden.   

Maturing prairie garden.

 

Wind sculptures in the prairie garden by Lyman Whitaker.  

There are six Whitaker sculptures at MOBOT.

St. Louis: around town

Citygarden: sculpture detail

St. Louis: around town

At the game on Wednesday night.

St. Louis: around town

Citygarden: watch, explore, immerse, merge

St. Louis: around town

Citygarden opened yesterday and it is wonderful! There are three water features. Each one is fun to watch, explore and experience.