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2010-05-06

Barnyard Birds

All photos taken by John at the Baker Creek Spring Planting Festival.
The barnyard bird exhibit cage.








































Baker Creek Spring Planting Festival 2010

Bruce, John, Judy, and I traveled from north central TX to southwestern MO to attend the Baker Creek Spring Planting Festival. Toe-tapping music, historical demonstrations, local handcrafts, plants, seeds, farm animals, and interesting people watching -- all in a beautiful rural setting. We had a great time!



















Rocky Ridge Farm, The Wilder Home in MO

Judy on the front steps of the Wilder farmhouse.


Detail of fossils imbedded in the chimney. Click photo to enlarge.


Detail of fossils imbedded in the chimney. Click photo to enlarge.


Side porch.


Our tour group leaving the house. A small section of the side porch (in the photo above) can be seen at the left rear of the house.

Welcome to Missouri!

Bruce, Teri, and John at the Visitor Center.


John, inside the Visitor Center, in front of a cool license plate collage.

2010-05-05

Horseshoe Horses from MO

Last year, on our Gulf Shores, Alabama beach house vacation, Judy and I were smitten with a seahorse made from a horseshoe. We looked and looked in the local gift shops but could not find any to make our own. This last weekend, at the Baker Creek Spring Planting Festival in Mansfield, MO, we came upon a blacksmith demonstration and found these! Mine is the one on the left; Judy will take the one on the right back to her California ranch house.



2010-05-04