One of the more creative costume ensembles at the Central West End Halloween party. Our temperatures have gotten much cooler and we’ve had...

  It’s increasingly common here. Autumn has been very warm and dry. Officially, we are in moderate to severe drought. The leaves turn brown ...

  We did a brief road trip the weekend before last to visit an old college friend and his wife. They live in Ottawa, Illinois, about a four ...

  It was time to drag myself out of the house and do something. Give myself a mental health day, so I took my camera and went to Forest Par...

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As I mentioned yesterday, our fall colors are spotty at best. This is one of the best exceptions, found around my favorite location in Fores...

I've about run through the circus pictures so it's time to find something else. Not much going on but there is some color to see her...

Tower Grove Park, of course.             

Citygarden covers two full blocks downtown. The landscaping is done in zones, reflecting the variety of flora in our region. The ginkgos we ...

From Citygarden last weekend, looking east along Market Street through the ginkgos. They won't be around much longer.                   ...

Autumn colors can come late here, or not at all. If the late summer and early fall are dry, everything goes brown and then plops. We've ...

The architecture of the Pulitzer is decidedly spare. It was designed by the multi award-winning Japanese designer Tadao Ando, https://en.wik...

Forest Park is the largest urban park in the United States. There are a few that are bigger within a city's official border (Phoeni...

Okay, I have not traveled every hill and dale in the metro area but this one is Old Reliable. And, no, I don't know what kind of tr...

Forest Park, yesterday afternoon. Gray day. The annual cycle continues.

We don't always get a colorful fall. Many years it is too warm and dry. Leaves turn brown, drop to the ground and that's it. Th...

Back home at last. I was sitting on our front steps yesterday afternoon while Ellie was doing something we will see tomorrow. A monarch...

Getting better bit by bit, except for the &^@(* back arthritis. Still not out that much but I needed a Monday picture. I chos...

It finally feels like summer is really over here. It was a long one. Every autumn Citygarden covers its long stone wall with a row of p...

Fall color is hit and miss here. We need the right amount of rain and a little bit of cold weather. This year it's been dry as a bo...