Spa Day

Chances are, at some point in your life, you’ve seen what happens when a house cat gets wet. It’s no secret that cats aren’t fond of the water, even though they can swim just fine. Tigers love the water and enjoy taking dips in cold water. Tigers almost never have their heads under water, because they don’t like getting water in their eyes and nostrils. To avoid this, they typically get in the water backwards and keep their heads above water. Water is actually the primary cooling device tigers use.

St Louis Gems

$Vault$

Gorgeous and intricately patterned, this Herring Hall Marvin vault door comes from the First National Bank building at 501 Locust.  Once moved to the museum, twenty tons of steel plates comprising the middle of the doors were not reassembled to reduce the weight; instead they were cut apart and used as the stair treads for the Bulldozer staircase on MonstroCity.

Bottle Wall

City Museum acquired over 70,000 glass bottles in the late 1990s from a discontinued line at the Vess Soda Co. One bottle wall snakes through the Vault Room, but the motif is repeated a few times in the building, bearing witness to the Cassilly principle that "enough of anything becomes a brick!"

Muses

These ladies are an early sculpture in the cave in the St Louis City Museum. They've become known as the Muses. The caves took form over several years, beginning in 1995 and finally opening to the public in 2003.

Coincidence or NOT?

Two sisters traveling together on a summer road trip 

~one from Chatham and one from Toronto...

It was meant to be!

Corn as High as an Elephant's Eye

While traveling through Illinois this summer I had the pleasure of seeing vast fields of corn going on for miles and I never tired of the sight!