Recap: July

Naps. Daily naps. That’s the reality of July, now that I’m 64 years old. And that’s fine with me. July included some tourism: The Field House Museum, Watkins Mills State Park, the Hall of Waters in Excelsior Springs, Truman Library, the Old Courthouse in Saint Louis. I saw my sisters, the two youngest nephews, and

London: Day 10

Food tour day! I signed up several weeks ago for Food Tours on Foot excursion to East London, scene of immigration and change over the last 200 years. Our guide–we were 20 in all, with USA and Canada and Germany and Switzerland all represented–was Jessica, a Canadian expat expecting her first child in August. Jessica

Forest Park

A recent luncheon in Forest Park led to some meandering too. Photos with a smudge of filtering:

Stone Sea

Stone Sea is a site-specific installation at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Occasionally the museum opens the courtyard to a few people who snap up tickets quickly when they are announced. I scored one recently, for a 20-minute tour last week. What a lovely little excursion this was!

Forest Park

Local tourism is one of weekly activities on the agenda for this quarter-year away from university teaching (AKA summer break). I started last week with a lecture at the Missouri History Museum. The topic was ‘forgotten cemeteries of Saint Louis.’ Then I drove around Forest Park on a beautiful mid-Spring day.