LOST KITTY

I’m out of current material so I’m dipping into the archives to continue the snow theme. This in a park close to our home, taken during a storm. I hope the cat found some shelter.                        

DUCKS ON ICE

 

A little bit down the road in Forest Park. There are always ducks around the water features, and sometimes geese. (Who can be really mean. Don’t mess with them.)  The ducks are far better insulated than we are and don’t give a quack about the cold. I do. I wish I could have gotten a better POV over the grass but the snow was piled up so high beside by the plows that I couldn’t get up on it.              

LATE WINTER AFTERNOON, SOFT LIGHT

 

Still closer to sunset. The blue of the shaded snow is touched by a bit of gold in the sky.                    

REALLY BAD IDEA

 

This is the bottom of Art Hill, seen yesterday. The body of water in the foreground is called the Grand Lagoon. The bottom of the hill is supposed to have a row of hay bales and orange net fencing to prevent sledders from flying off the bottom to a drop of about a meter. It’s all been knocked away. Some foolish people thought it would be fun to walk out on the frozen part, which could not have been more than a couple of centimeters thick. I didn’t wait long enough to see if anyone fell through.

SLEDDING ON ART HILL

Late afternoon at STL’s premier sledding venue, Art Hill. (That’s the art museum on top.) We don’t get much snow anymore and it’s cold enough that it’s sticking around, so there was a big turnout. The lagoon is partly frozen and there are some very unwise people out on the ice. Maybe more about that tomorrow.                        

GOALPOSTS

 

Southwest Park, Webster Groves, the suburb where we live. The view is behind where I was for yesterday’s photo of Hawken House. As the years pass, it becomes rarer for us to get this much snow.                     

HAWKEN HOUSE

 

It’s been a long time since I have had a post about this place. The view is two or three minutes walk from my front door. A historic building by our standards, built for local Christopher Hawken in 1867, https://tinyurl.com/2xhv72kz . We don’t get the white trim very often.