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I shot this video this morning. Video is from about 5:30 until 9 am from my bathroom window. It overlooks the Mississippi River into Illinois, just South of St. Louis MO. I got up about 5:30 and it just looked like it might be a beautiful sunrise, so I quickly set the camera up and went back to bed. It was a little cloudier than I thought it would be, but it’s still pretty neat.
Camera: Samsung R10 in Time-lapse mode with a shot every 5 seconds. Editing software: Pinnacle Studio 12
The Presurfer posted about this today. I’ve lived in this area for sixty years and the weekend before last was the first time I ever went there. It’s less than an hour from my house. A very interesting place.
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the site of an ancient Native American city (650–1400 CE) near Collinsville, Illinois in the American Bottom floodplain, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. The 2,200-acre site included 120 man-made earthen mounds over an area of six square miles. Cahokia was larger than London was in AD 1250.
Cahokia Mounds is the largest archaeological site related to the Mississippian culture, which developed advanced societies in eastern North America centuries before the arrival of Europeans.
We’ve had a couple of storms today. This time-lapse video covers about a three hour period this afternoon. You can’t really see the rain, but you can see the trees moving in the wind and the clouds were quite active. There were some tornadoes that touched down not far from here in Illinois, but you can’t see them in this video. Running time: 45 seconds.
This was my view as I flew into St. Louis the other day from my Florida trip.
Eventually they’re going to build a “Ballpark Village” in the area to the right of the new stadium. But for the time being they’ve built a softball field there and a parking lot. This is where many of the festivities will take place during the All Star Game week here in St. Louis next month.
Here are some behind the scenes pictures of the Team Fredbird girls. They’re best known for shooting T-shirts and give-a-ways to the fans from atop the Cardinal dugout during home games of the St. Louis Cardinals.
One of my favorite places in the St. Louis area. It’s in Alton Illinois about 20 minutes from the arch. I’ve been there many, many times. You can meet all kinds of people there…. from motorcyclists to businessmen to seniors and everyone gets along well. They have expanded now and have a new outdoor patio area with plenty of flat screen TV’s, the coldest beer in town and cheap, yet good food. If you’re ever in this part of the country it’s a must see place.
Fast Eddie’s was visited by the Food Network crew.
Note: I was not paid in any way for this endorsement.
Beginning April 20th the daily St. Louis Post-Dispatch will go from 75 cents to $1 an issue. It went from 50 cents to 75 cents about a year ago. Sales declined after that increase.
I’m predicting that by the end of the year (2009) the daily Post-Dispatch will cease publication. They may still do a Sunday paper but I’m guessing they’ll probably price themselves out of that too.
The paper has decreased in size and content in the last few years.
The {Post ranks 23rd in the nation according to it’s circulation. It’s circulation is 423,291 (Sunday edition).
I still like reading the paper, but like many others I seem to do it less and less as time goes on. I get most of my news on the internet and on TV.
I’ve been in retail business for 40 years in the St. Louis area. I remember a time when we would sell 125 Sunday papers and 20+ daily papers. Now we sell 2 or 3 papers a day and about 10 or 12 Sunday papers a week.
More about the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
B&P reader, commenter and personal friend, Derek Brink, whom I’ve known since he was about two is a musician in the St. Louis area. He’s been in several bands and performed and recorded solo. He has a new band that includes his brother Dave and two other local musicians. They play a mix of “hard rock with an occasional bit of twang thrown in”. They have their first live gig this weekend.
I’ll never forget the first time I saw Derek play. The Derek I knew away from music was very quiet and shy… he could probably be called an introvert. He would talk to you, but you kind of had to pry a conversation out of him. Anyway, the first time I saw him perform was at a bar in downtown St. Louis. Derek’s dad got some friends together to go and see Derek and his band play. I was flabbergasted at this young man as he cavorted across the stage singing and flirting with the crowd. The music was a little too harsh to my liking, (not sure if it was heavy metal or very hard rock), but I was energized by his energy and outgoing style. It took several hours before I could hear normally again.
I have one of his CD’s (Things I Meant To Say) and it has very different (and good) music on it, which tells me he’s quite the talented musician.
The current band is called Blue Tattoo and this is it’s website. There are some downloads there so you can sample their music.
If you happen to be in the St. Louis area they’re playing on Saturday night at a place called The Chapel, near Forest Park and Washington University. Info on the gig is on the band’s website.
P.S. He didn’t ask me to post this, I’m doing this without his permission. I’m such a rebel.
