The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
We were settled in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for a couple weeks around Doug’s jury duty service, and took a weekend trip around the Northeast corner of our home state. Let’s be honest, there is …
My hope when we went to McCrory Gardens in Brookings, South Dakota, was that I’d see lots of flowers while Doug saw lots of birds. It worked out well for me (as you’ll see from …
We went to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, Minnesota, hoping to get some birding in, but we didn’t do very well. I went in hoping that we would see some new lifers since is …
We went to the Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to see some birds, naturally, but we found almost no birds. However, to my delight, the adjacent Lyndale Park Rose Garden had many …
Doug and I spent a few hours in the Morton Arboretum birding and enjoying the trees and flowers. Even though we walked a few miles, we only saw a fraction of what there is to …
We had to make an emergency trip home to New Jersey, so we naturally took some walks and tried to find new birds while we were in town.
Here are just a few items while we passed through the center of the state. The columns in the cover photo are at Westminster College in Fulton. They are all that remains of Old Westminster …
Doug and I spent a few hours walking along the Bush Creek looking for birds, and oh, I, uh, didn’t realize that there were, um, gardens here, too? But we could just pop in for …
You might think that the best parts of Kansas City are in Kansas, but you’d be wrong — the most well-known attractions are in Kansas City, Missouri. It’s very weird how these two cities are …
We took every opportunity to go birding in some of the great parks around St. Louis, but of course I don’t walk by flowers without stopping to look so here are some photos of colorful …
