Nature Galleries
The snow began on December 15, 2007 and ended in the early morning of December 16. It was a record snowfall of 7 inches; the previous record was 1.3 inches or something like that. Snows like this used to be common in the St. Louis area but we rarely get them anymore. I can remember getting snowfalls of 8-10 inches back in the 1980s. The p ...
Updated: Dec 16, 2007 7:19pm PST
These are photos of the ice storm of January 2007. The photos were taken on a hike that my husband and I did the morning after the first ice fall, and they are in our neighborhood and in Creve Coeur Park.
Updated: Jan 14, 2007 12:20pm PST
The Butterfly House in the St. Louis area is a very nice place to go. It's located in Faust Park on Olive Street Rd. just a couple miles east of Hwy. 40 in Chesterfield. Outside the actual butterfly dome, you can see hundreds of cockroaches, a few spiders and the like housed in glass containers in the hallway. The facility also has a g ...
Updated: Feb 20, 2006 2:27pm PST
