I finally made a hiking trip to Washington State Park near De Soto, MO on a cold Saturday afternoon. I had been to the park many times, usually fishing in the Big River or driving through for a look at the fall colors. But somehow I had never taken the time to hike any of…
I had an hour to kill before an early afternoon meeting, so I thought I would take a quick lunch-time walk through the woods at Phantom Forest Conservation Area. Once at the trailhead, I discovered that the short trail at Phantom Forest actually led to another short trail at the nearby Bittersweet Woods. Looks like…
My fascination with game camera photos continues, even if largely the vast majority of images captured this month were of whitetail deer. We are monitoring 4 cameras at 2 different properties, both in St. Louis County. All of them are finding large numbers of deer, including many very nice bucks. And while they are recording…
The below text is something that I wrote this summer, obviously before we did our big hike. I just never had the guts to post it. Far more sharing than I am typically comfortable doing. But its been sitting here, stewing in my draft box for months, just staring at me. I guess maybe that…
