Teacher's trip to the Philippines

This is a picture of one of the patients houses that my teacher visited. It is amazing how people can create shelters, that resemble houses that we take for granted, out of nothing. Some may look down on living in poverty and a home that is not to our standards. There are also others out there that would envy them by living away from the city with a beautiful view.

St. Louis Zoo 2/16

                 

                    A meerkat on the look out

Sea Anemone 

We had to take a trip to the St. Louis zoo and takes pictures there. While, the weather was not the greatest there were still animals to see. Inside the children's area they have fish tanks and other animals and some that you can pet. While there I took the two pictures on of a meerkat that reminded me of Timon from The Lion King. The other picture is of a sea anemone in a salt water aquarium which i would like to have one day.



Bellow are some of the things that you can find the zoo's reptile house. The green tree pythons lives in trees and are a beautiful green color to blend in and hid in the trees from predators. The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is one of the deadliest snakes in North America and many people and fear these snakes because of this. It is able to live with a tortoise just fine. The tomato frog,while not poisonous to humans, secrete a toxin that cause an allergic reaction in humans.

A Green Tree python 

Tomato frogs hiding

Eastern diamondback Rattlesnake

Many of the animals were put away to protect them from the cold and had special indoor cages like the toucan bellow which comes from a tropical environment. Some of the animals were unfazed by the freezing temperatures like this peacock that was walking around on the snow looking for food. Male peacocks are the ones that have the extravagant feathers that attract the females.

A toucan posing for a picture

A peacock strolling around

The zoo also had an insectarium that had many different types of bugs. they also had a room where they had butterflies flying around. this was really cool because there is a possibility that one might land on you. In the right bottom picture is a blue morpho butterfly which is called this because it has has brown camouflage to hide from predators. The two butter flies on the left just looked cool sitting there so i took a picture of them.

Butterfly trying to blend in with the plants

A butterfly and a leaf

Blue Morpho

Lafayette Square 1/30

The Fleur De Li's

The area was founded by the French in 1764. From the name to the Fleur De Li's

that are seen through out the area are reminders of the origins of the area.

With the age of the area many house were getting renovated.

The architecture

while walking around the area you cant help but to look at the old buildings. Each building
has a different look to it some, have bright colors and others are made of stone. This was
my favorite of all the houses we walked by.

An Old Fountain

This looked like an old fountain that some one turned into a planter. What really

caught my eye was the metal sculpture in the middle. It reminded me of the

worlds fair since it looked similar to a globe.

Artistic influences

When we started to leave the residential area to head to the park I caught a glimpse of this
 statue from the road. I felt this was the best way to sum up all the sculptures and
layouts of some of these houses.

The Revolutionary War

This is a cannon from the British warship Acteon, which was sunk while attacking Fort Moultrie.

there now exist three cannons from that ship in the park. This area is flooded with history
the oldest baseball field was not far from this spot.

A Pond
This is my favorite picture I took that day. I wanted to get a little bit of everything
the pond was frozen with the bridge in the background and the leave-less trees.