Posted in Birds, Favorite Places, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged aviary, great egret, st. louis zoo, the grid on September 20, 2015| 1 Comment »
The Grid
Roseate spoonbill nest. — Photo by Pat Bean
These photos were take in the aviary at the St. Louis Zoo in Missouri that was specially built for the 1904 World Fair.
Cloud reflections through the grid and a great egret. — Photo by Pat Bean
Posted in Birds, Favorite Places, Nature, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged 1904 world's fair, aviary, inside, pat bean, postaday, roseate spoonbills, St. Louis, weekly photo challenge on July 21, 2012| 6 Comments »
Roseate spoonbills in the aviary built for the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. — Photo by Pat Bean
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies … it would be a sad situation if they were better than the meat wrapped inside it.” — Albert Einstein
World’s Fair Aviary, St Louis Zoo
The swamp inside the aviary was the real thing — well almost. — Photo by Pat Bean
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Pat Bean is a writer, avid birder, hiker and passionate nature observer with wanderlust in her soul. She spent nine years living and traveling in a small RV. She now lives in Tucson with Scamp, a rescue who was supposed to be a Schnauzer mix but turned out to be a Siberian Husky-Shih Tzu mix who is as stubborn as his owner, her granddaughter says. She was also a journalist for 37 years, and can be reached at patbean@msn.com
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