The Room 11-14

Yellowstone Cafe  Town and Country, Missouri

Final Flower for the Day 11-11 Veteran's Day

Its been a ball. The garden's have all been put to bed and are ready for next years festivities. 

I hope you have enjoyed the year as much as I have. Above are some 

small balls on my crepe myrtle which for some reason failed to bloom this year. 

Seed balls.

Lake Lucerne, Innsbrook Missouri yesterday.

Flower for the Day 1-7 Persimmon

The leaves are long gone from the persimmon tree outside our bedroom window

but the fruit remains in various stages of growth. The dark ones at the top are 

ready to eat.

Flower for the Day 11-4 Seeds for next year.

The seeds are being carried away ......

Like the down of a thistle.

Breakfast out

From our new Egg and I Restaurant in Des Peres.

Posters from the USS Yorktown, CV-10

Dave Bowers sent me a photo from the

USS Yorktown (CV-10) which had these posters. 

The original Yorktown was a carrier that was lost early in WW II

and replacement CV-10 was in service from 1943 to 1977 when it 

was de-commisioned.

Flower for the Day 11-4 Burning Bush

This big red lollipop greeted our 'trick or treaters' on Halloween.

The Room 10-22

Stoney River Restaurant, Chesterfield, Missouri

Estes Park Flood 9-13 Trail Gazette

Water floods the intersection of Elkhorn and Moraine
Avenues Friday morning, September 13 in
downtown Estes Park. 
We missed the floods by several weeks.

Chris in Classic Tin Type Portrait

Image by photographer Matt Alberts using

the wet plate collodion process and his 11 by 14 camera.