We visited Shaw Nature Reserve today.
Beautiful day
An absolutely beautiful day!
Historic “Bascom” House
Inside the house they had tea, coffee and hot chocolate. Plus lots of photographs, displays of historical artifacts (the Spy loved the arrow heads) and we got a bunch of nice pamphlets (on butterflies, hummingbirds, native Missouri landscaping and a tree ID guide) perfect for reading indoors on a much colder winter day (it was 55 today!)
Fuzzy buds
Frozen leaves
Tiny frozen pond
About ponds in Missouri
I loved the look of these ferns
Lovely bronze color
Another view
So many different seed pods and spent blooms
Sea of grass
Golden grass
Little silver dried flowers
I spy my sister
Spy Sister?
Aunt Spy? She needs a Spy Garden name. haha
Dreamy
Baby and Smoochie
The Spy
Empty Pod
Little Yellow Seed
Woods
Some type of nightshade? Gooseberries? Ground cherries?
Who’s that?
Always love a good deer fence! (since Spy Garden has its very own deer fence)
Onward!
A sod-house
Beautiful View
Reminds me of a Rothko painting
Landscape
Grassy Path
Gray Grasses
A teepee!
Teepee Top
Spy Garden Family Shot
Golden chevrons
Weeee! (Baby and me)
Yellow and Blue
We can’t wait to go back!
For more info on Shaw Nature Reserve click here. These pictures are nice but they don’t even do the place justice, it is gorgeous!
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You take beautiful photos! They make me want to get out my own camera. I can’t wait to see more.
Thanks!!
Lovely photos, baby looks like Smoochie, you look like your sister…all in all a great outing :)
It was a great outing. I actually can’t believe we’d never visited Shaw before because it is right up our alley for an “outing” and it is only a very short drive away. We will DEFINITELY be going back. I can’t imagine how it looks in the spring, all that prarie space will be filled with wildflowers!
Can’t wait to see photos of plants that we consider “exotic species” growing wild :)
These photos are simply stunning! One after another, this post is chock-full of gorgeous shots – brava! Thanks for sharing your day of beauty with us. :-)
Thanks! It was a STUNNING day! So warm and sunny. We are due for some frigid days in the next week so this was a perfect outing to remember when we are cozied up inside! Did you recognize the orange berries? A type of nightshade? Ground cherries? They were about the size of large blueberries. Hope you had a very Merry Christmas and are keeping warm in that cold Connecticut winter! I remember those winters well ;)
I’ve been meaning to get back to you about the orange berries. A few days ago I was walking in a field near here and I saw these same fruit – such a coincidence, since I have never seen them before. The spiny stem and hang of the fruit I believe are nightshade, but what kind? Solanum villosum has yellow fruit and looks like smooth stems but these were thorny. S.pyracanthum? Both of these are native to Africa, but apparently the seeds will self-sow just like tomatoes. Not seeing the leaf, it’s hard to make a positive ID. I should have collected some of those fruit to germinate in spring, but now with this blizzard we’re having, I’ve lost my chance! Another curiosity of nature that we’ll never know for sure!
;) thanks! I love a good mystery! Funny you saw the same thing!
Fantastic photos! Looks like you guys had fun. :-)
Excellent photos! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the compliment!