Top 5 favorite places to go for photography. The Riverlands, Confluence Point and Portage Des Sioux. Beautiful day at the end of 2023.

This little squirrel came cleaning up the scraps that the deer left behind.

Just a pretty fall moonrise over that old barn.

Just a beautiful old river town that is now full of historic buildings, craft shops and a winery.

It doesn’t last long enough in this area, but I love this time of year when temperatures cool off and the trees are full of color.

My first time camping in Southern Illinois. This trip included camping at South Marcum – Corp of Engineers campground at Rend Lake, a visit to the Little Grand Canyon, the Bald Knob Cross of Peace, the Stone Face trail, the Observation Trail at Garden of the gods, Cave-in-Rock park on the Ohio River and a trip to the original family homestead in Paducah.

My first time camping in Southern Illinois. This trip included camping at South Marcum – Corp of Engineers campground at Rend Lake, a visit to the Little Grand Canyon, the Bald Knob Cross of Peace, the Stone Face trail, the Observation Trail at Garden of the gods, Cave-in-Rock park on the Ohio River and a trip to the original family homestead in Paducah.

My first time camping in Southern Illinois. This trip included camping at South Marcum – Corp of Engineers campground at Rend Lake, a visit to the Little Grand Canyon, the Bald Knob Cross of Peace, the Stone Face trail, the Observation Trail at Garden of the gods, Cave-in-Rock park on the Ohio River and a trip to the original family homestead in Paducah.

Eads designed and built the first road and rail bridge to cross the Mississippi River at St. Louis. The Eads Bridge, constructed from 1867 through 1874, was the first bridge of a significant size with steel as its primary material, and it was the longest arch bridge in the world when completed.

Lake 33 at Busch Wildlife Conservation Area is naturally shallow making it a great place to find shorebirds. A lack of rain in the area caused the lake to dry up on the shallow end leaving mud behind, but exposed the muscles that Limpkins like to feed on.