Disclaimer: I don't have any KC pics because it was dark when I came through...feels very incomplete without KC.
This is a mix-mash of some photos I took during 2009.
Places featured include:
Southside St. Louis
Point Mugu
Denver
Sierra Nevada foothills
The Great Basin
Missouri Ozarks
Lake Tahoe
Confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers
San Francisco
Big Sur
Santa Cruz
St. Louis and the West: Winter Solstice Edition
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St. Louis and the West: Winter Solstice Edition
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Re: St. Louis and the West: Winter Solstice Edition
Warwickland~
Your pictures are gorgeous and/or fascinating. I particularly liked the butte with the train "necklace." All were wonderful. Thank you so much for posting them.
Your pictures are gorgeous and/or fascinating. I particularly liked the butte with the train "necklace." All were wonderful. Thank you so much for posting them.
“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act.” —Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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Re: St. Louis and the West: Winter Solstice Edition
Great pics. Though the picture of the roller coaster(?) seems to throw a wrench in the whole thing.
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Re: St. Louis and the West: Winter Solstice Edition
thanks guys, the rollercoaster is at the historical(ish) Santa Cruz boardwalk, I should have included more pictures from there.
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Re: St. Louis and the West: Winter Solstice Edition
fantastic pics, I love the randomness of the order. I saw these on SSP but don't really post there, so I'll give kudos to your creativity here! where are the pics of the river, on/near the sandbar taken, the MO around StL? I'd like to see some KC pics out of you some day
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Re: St. Louis and the West: Winter Solstice Edition
Thanks! The pictures of the river are on the Mississippi in the Columbia Bottoms Conservation Area in North St. Louis County, barely downriver of the confluence, directly across from where the Chain of Rocks Canal takes all commercial river traffic. It's a fantastic place to spend the day drinking beer and fishing in the sun (with a designated girlfriend driver). That's the famous and infamous Chain of Rocks Bridge (and already gritty New Chain of Rocks deck structure carrying I-270 into Illinois) downriver there, where Rt 66 used to cross over. Possibly barely visible are also the 2 Mississippi River intake cribs for the City of St. Louis.rxlexi wrote: fantastic pics, I love the randomness of the order. I saw these on SSP but don't really post there, so I'll give kudos to your creativity here! where are the pics of the river, on/near the sandbar taken, the MO around StL? I'd like to see some KC pics out of you some day
I was indecisive on how many pictures to include. I wanted a theme, but I also had those Chicago pictures on SSP. I had a lot more pictures of Appalachia and Asheville, NC that I wanted to include but I couldn't find them, so I grabbed those pictures of the Ozarks from last March and September.
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Re: St. Louis and the West: Winter Solstice Edition
warwickland wrote: thanks guys, the rollercoaster is at the historical(ish) Santa Cruz boardwalk, I should have included more pictures from there.
Not just any coaster - The Giant Dipper. Nothing like climing on to a wooden coaster after viewing its national historic register plaque.
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