AFTER SUNSET

A few winutes after sunset in Forest Park. The trees, especially the one back-center, look menacing.

I am so out of new material...   

SNACK

Ellie loves to go to the St. Louis Science Center. It's sort of a science playground for kids. I don't know how much knowledge she absorbs but she dives into it madly.

It has a two-level, semi-animated T. Rex that appears to have just taken a bite out of a triceratops lying at its side. (Did those two creatures exist at the same time?) I'd find it frightening if I were her age but I guess that's how inured children are now to the horrid (a skill that may be very valuable as they grow older). I wasn't frightened by the full-sized models of a T. Rex and brontosaurus in the Museum of Natural History in NY when I was young but they were just statues. No one ever dreamed that monsters could stalk Central Park West until Ghostbusters came out.                  

YOUNG AT HEART

You don't have to be young and crazy to go water skiing in the Mississippi on New Year's Day.  Old and crazy will do. Lots of color helps. That's a Mexican sombrero behind his head, maybe for a little extra air drag.            

ANNUAL WACKOS

Sorry no post yesterday. Sometimes life intrudes.

Every New Year's Day a group of people goes water skiing in the Mississippi River. And, yes, it's cold. Really cold. The air was mild last Wednesday but the water comes down from way up north. It takes a special kind of person to do this.

It is for a good cause, though. The event is a fund raiser for the Missouri Disabled Water Ski Association. They use special equipment to get people with significant physical impairments out on the water and zooming.                  

SAINT LOUIS DAILY PHOTO - 2019 PHOTO OF THE YEAR CLOSE RUNNER-UP

It was really hard to choose from this and the photo I posted yesterday. Bit of good luck here - my reflexes aren't that fast. Taken off Samara, Costa Rica, last February.