Earth: PhotoBlog

Sometime between now and January 17th, I have three new parks I intend to go shoot.

Hawn State Park, which is about an hour and a half away, and features a 10 mile trail, which was constructed in 1976  with the help of the Ozark Chapter of the Sierra Club. Evidently there is bobcat and wild turkey in the area. While I’d love to get some nice shots of both, I’m not sure I really want to be confronted with either.

Meramec State Park, is also about an hour and a half away and has two trails of interest: A 1.3 mile trail which consists of caves, glades, mature forest and overgrown…

The Taum Sauk State Park, where Mina Sauk Falls is located, is nearly three hours from me, so for this trip I opted to camp out. It was a very cold December, it had previously snowed in the area, and what wasn’t covered with snow, was frozen. Slept in my car that night (thank the Chevy gods for auto start!) in one of the most beautiful (albeit small) campgrounds I’d ever seen. It was just stunning; heavily wooded with a small, frozen pond just across the road from my spot. I headed out to the trail first thing Sunday morning, in search of the “tallest waterfall…