St Louis

We went to St Louis today. The traffic around the Botanical Garden and Forest Park was horrible. It was such a nice day. We had a wonderful lunch at Rigazzi's on the Hill. Leaving the Hill was almost impossible on Hampton Ave. We had to go through Forest Park and take a roundabout way to get on I-64 westbound.

All the traffic shows how much city people crave getting in touch with "nature" such as it is. I think I could do a whole day on the need to provide "natural" areas for people to recreate.

We ended up at the Butterfly House which was really cool. They have over 400 species of butterflies, although we saw maybe 20, it was still very interesting.

In the agricultural world, we saw some nitrogen application going on. There was corn planted along I-55 at Edwardsville. It was unplanted this morning and planted this evening. This is always one of the first fields in the area planted.