Our boys love hunting for fossils.  There are areas where you can find loads of crinoids, shells, and other seabed fossils.

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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 eagles.  The lake was very low and there were a lot of dead catfish and what might have been carp, most looked to be between 3 and 5 pounds, laying out on the exposed ground.  The eagles were feasting on the fish, and provided some wonderful images.