“On your Wedding Day”
Best wishes! Cheers! Well done!
The Future full of promise and It has only begun
Your starting on a journey
A new, Exciting life
Together, as a partnership As Husband and Wife
Adventures,thrills and choices are waiting just for you
The road will have some turnings and perhaps a bump or two
But you’ll be strong together
You will come through every test
Your love will deepen week by week
Be Happy and all the BEST
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are BEAUTIFUL but because they are fleeting ~
Richard Paul Evans
Located in St. Charles County, the 6,987-acre August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area is home to the St. Louis regional office, which includes a visitor center. With hiking trails and numerous hunting and fishing opportunities, the Busch Area is also your local connection to Missouri’s fish, forests, and wildlife.
Stop by for a fishing/hunting license, and stay to enjoy our exhibits, including a 1,300-gallon aquarium. Catch one of our free nature programs, go for a hike, enjoy a picnic, or wet a line in some of our 28 fishable lakes and ponds.
Well visited one of my favorite place to go which is Pickle Springs Park in St.Genevieve Missouri which also is very close to Farmington ,Missouri.
Explore a geological wonderland that is a National Natural Landmark.
View scenic waterfalls and cool box canyons that harbor unusual plants and animals.
Enjoy the blossoms of rose azalea along the sandstone valley in the spring.
This scenic natural area contains all sorts of fascinating sandstone rock formations including box canyons and wet weather waterfalls. The sandstone rock here is the Lamotte sandstone that was formed from sandy beaches of a shallow ocean that existed here 500 million years ago.
Missouri has so much to offer as far as beauty of nature and wildlife.
Well, I got to get out a little bit during the snow storm and very cold temps. I only went one place as it was just to cold. I am ready for spring. Don’t get me wrong I love snow , just not the extreme cold temps. Hope you enjoy!
Just wanted to see Red
I just love this one with the ice and the snow just glistening:)
I wanted to capture the detail of the sun shadows and the foot prints in the snow.
I am just so ready for beautiful colors and weather. The Autumn season is my favorite time of the year.
Captured at Brynesmill, Mo. 2012
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Capture at a near by Lake
Capture at Washington State Park in Missouri
This one of my favorite! Artist capturing a Artist on the Old Byrnesville Mill Bridge
This page is dedicated to the enjoyment of butterflies, some of our world’s most beautiful creatures. The species I have photographed here are all Missouri native, with each specimen being a beautiful creature in its own unique way. Unfortunately, this kind of simple beauty that butterflies possess can often be overlooked in the busy-ness (business) of life. Thus I created a little interesting facts on different kinds. I hope you enjoy!
The Anise Butterfly
There is so many various kinds of Swallow Tails. Colors also depend on Male and female.The elegant Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon) is often mistaken for the Eastern Black Swallowtail . The caterpillars look nearly identical! The adults definitely have differences in markings, that, when compared side-by-side, are evident. Captured this is my back yard.
Butterfly In Flight In the Swallowtail Family Not sure Of the Name of this one.
I captured this at Shaw’s Nature Reserve in Missouri.
This is the Black Swallow Tail
The black swallowtail, also called the American swallowtail or parsnip swallowtail, is a butterfly found throughout much of North America. It is the state butterfly of Oklahoma.
This is the Eastern Blue Butterfly
Eastern tailed blue butterflies can easily go unnoticed with their small size. Sneaking up on and capturing in the cameras view finder can be challenging. This eastern tailed blue landed on white clover. .Eastern tailed blues facts: wingspan 3/4 to 1 inch; males irridescent blue above and summer females brown above; found practically anywhere except deep woods; flies low to ground and perches low; lays eggs on legumes, especially clovers, beans and tick.
This is the Paper Kite Butterflies Not from Missouri
The Paper Kite Butterfly only has two rather common colors, black and white, but is still an eye catching beauty. The way the light shines through the wings is just amazing, and if there are other colors around it looks a bit like stained glass.This was capture at the Butterfly House in St. Louis, Mo.
The Blue Clipper
The Clipper is a fast flying butterfly and has a habit of flying with its wings flapped stiffly between the horizontal position and a few degrees below the horizontal. It may glide between spurts of flapping.
The Painted Butterfly
This is one of the most common butterfly species in the world. The only places it doesn’t live are on Antarctica and some remote islands. It even migrates to Hawaii and Iceland!
The Tiger Yellow Swallow Tail Butterfly
The Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucas) is a strong flier with distinctive yellow and black striped markings on its wings and body (some females are brown or black, mimicking the poisonous pipevine swallowtail). This relatively common butterfly has a wingspan of 3.5-6.5 inches (9-16.5 cm). Southern subspecies are larger than the northern ones.
These butterflies are called swallowtails because they have long “tails” on their hindwings which look a bit like the long, pointed tails of swallows (a type of bird).
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For more information on butterflies
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/species/Tigersw.shtml
On my 4th of July we took a road trip along Route 66 and it was fantastic! Here are some Memories of yesterday !So much good information on Times Beach, Coral Courts,Roadside Cafe, 66 Drive INN
Here is the History on Times Beach It was a really big deal! Now it os a beautiful Park called Route 66 Park. Lots of Wildlife and Nature, hiking ,trails for horses etc…
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, Missouri, United States, located 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 mi (3 km) east of Eureka. Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to a dioxin scare that made national headlines. It was the largest civilian exposure to dioxin in the country’s history.
Today, the land that was once Times Beach is now Route 66 State Park. One building from the town still exists: the park’s visitor center was once a roadhouse from Times Beach’s glory days, and was the EPA’s headquarters for the area. There is a large grass mound beneath which is the debris of the demolished buildings of the former town.[2]
I captured this at St. Louis Zoo. I just thought it was so sweet how they were loving on each other.
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Missouri Photographer Peggy Franz 