Colorful houses at New Town.  My wife thinks it’s like Edward Scissorhands, but it’s more like the Truman Show to me.

New Town is an idyllic little town that was built northwest of St. Louis.  Completely planned and designed, it has everything a modern suburbanite might need, including a big city just a few miles a way.  This is the chapel there, I’m not sur…

Flowers from the 2009 Christmas Holiday Flower Show

These two eagles are quite serious about their fish. You would think there would be enough to go around, but that is evidently not the way of the wild!

There is a fairly large, shallow lake that forms the centerpiece of the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary, just west of the Mississippi River.  A few weeks ago (early January 2010), we really lucked out when we went to see if we could see any ea…