If you have not made it to the Annual Flower and Train Show and the MO Botanical Gardens, you need to go!  It is bright and beautiful.  There didn’t seem to be as many trains, but it could be that I was too focused on the flowers.   There seemed to be more room and [...]

See the fish this one was going for?  It was a feeding frenzy! They went talons to talons over the fish.  I had never seen this before today (in real life).  What a great day in Alton. The swans have come to Alton!  Very cool! The bottom one caught a fish and the top guy [...]

For a little bit there I thought I was going to do a shoot for National Geographic!  The bird was spared! Pretty cool how this bird caught the fish. I think this is my FAVORITE bird picture to date! Loved how this guy moved his head to the side to look at me and Noah. [...]