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Landscape With Dinosaurs

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Published May 28, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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A bug's eye view of a fiberglass triceratops and tyrannosaurus rex outside the St. Louis Science Center in Forest Park. Just fooling around. At least they existed in the same geologic era so I suppose they could have bumped into one another. (I didn't bother to look up the land range in which each of them lived). I'd prefer to be small enough to hide in the grass if they were passing by ...

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Tower Grove

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Published May 18, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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St. Louis is fortunate to have a a great deal of park space. Forest Park, the largest urban park in the US, is the famous one. My personal favorite, though, may be Tower Grove Park ... Its 289 acres / 117 hectares has a formal Victorian plan and includes gazebos, open areas and grand, carefully planned woods. It could be the grounds surrounding an English stately home ...

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Zoohundred

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Published May 12, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

As difficult as it is to believe, the Saint Louis Zoo in Forest Park (314-781-0900 or www.stlzoo.org) is 100 years old — it seems so young and vibrant. To celebrate this momentous occasion, the zoo presents Zootennial , a retrospective exhibition that ...

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Among the Faeries

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Published April 27, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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Like last year, I found a group of faeries flittering through Forest Park during the Earth Day festivities. They were young and old, mostly but not exclusively women, and stayed completely in character when they spoke to me. If you would like to become a very disoriented 21st Century technically savvy person, go to your local major urban park and chat for a while with faeries who play it completely straight. Oberon and Titania must have been held up by Sunday's rain but it was completely

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A Perfect Model

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Published April 19, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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I mentioned yesterday that I was a little nervous about my first assignment shooting high school senior pictures. Tillie, my subject, was terrific. Her mother is an old friend, a colleague in my legal specialty in central Missouri. We spent a few hours shooting in Forest Park and got some really good results. She was a perfect model ... By the way, I couldn't have done any of this without the instruction from my adored portrait photography teacher, Bobbi Lane. She da best ...

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Rain Cycle

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Published April 25, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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A bicyclist in Forest Park dodges the rain showers that rolled through the area yesterday. There is a tornado watch in effect as I write this on Saturday night. I've been in St. Louis more than 40 years and I've never seen one, fortunately, but they've been around the area many times. Mrs. C is from rural Kansas and she's never seen one. She actually has a sister named Dorothy who still lives in Kansas but, sadly, does not have a dog names Toto. She has a husband named Bill ... I'm hoping to

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The Frozen Bride

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Published Jan. 25, 2010 at 1:05 a.m.
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"Honey, tell me again, why are getting married in St. Louis in January?" ... "Babe, it was Maui or that rock you were begging for. You can't have everything. But look, you got me." ... There are certain locations downtown and in Forest Park where you often see wedding parties and their photographers. Of course, down around the Arch is a prime venue. I spotted this couple on a blustery winter day at the foot of my favorite monument. Did she have to do bare shoulders and arms? Not even a white

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Snowsuit

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Published Jan. 10, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.
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A guest post today from team member ShadowyOne: ... Going along with the "snowy statues" theme, Thursday afternoon your guest poster ShadowyOne was at Art Hill in Forest Park, a famous local spot for sledding. The sledding hill is always mobbed after any snowstorm. Though I took plenty of crowd/sledding scenes, every time I go to the Art Museum after it snows, I always find myself attracted to the way the snow collects in the laps of the two seated statues flanking the main entrance ...

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See Spots Survive

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Published Jan. 20, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

The Earth and her plant and animal inhabitants can withstand all manner of abuse heaped upon them, but at some point the pressure can be too much. Species numbers can decline; entire populations can and do disappear. The Saint Louis Zoo in Forest Park (314-646-4544 or ...

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Do Clothes Make the Man?

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Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.

Lurking in various first floor galleries of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park (314-721-0072 or www.slam.org) are a few headless children at play. The fiberglass mannequins, captured in playful moments, are dressed in the colorful patterns of traditional Afri ...

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