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Thursday, May 24, 2012

feeding fish

We found this really beautiful park recently that has a natural spring.  It is also a rainbow trout hatchery, so you can feed the fish.  Which the littles adore.  These fish are voracious eaters, and do amazing leaps and wriggles just to get to the food that gets thrown in.  So that's fun to watch.  The scenery is gorgeous, and there are a couple of waterfalls to top it all off.  Not to mention the incredible turquoise waters of the spring, where it is so clear you can see straight to the bottom.  It's a treasure!  If you're ever in the middle of nowhere Missouri, check out Maramec Spring Park.  There's even a pretty interesting museum, too.

But the littles mostly wanted to just feed the fish.
But my favorite was the waterfalls.
But the spring was pretty gorgeous, too.
Can you see the fish in the pictures above?  Amazing.  You can also see them wrestle in the picture below.
It's a beautiful place to while away a morning, and then end with a picnic. 

13 comments:

  1. Beautiful pictures!
    What a great place to show the children!

    Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Gorgeous park; look at that beautiful water! That's so great that you can feed the fish! I wish we had something like that. I know my little one would love to feed the fish or as she says "Shish"! Great pics too!

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  3. oh that looks like such an amazing spot to take the kiddos!

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  4. Oh, wow, what a lovely spot! I would want to hang out there all day long... Great photos!

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  5. Such a beautiful place! The water is so clear. Lovely photos!

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  6. Wow is that a lot if fish! How cool. It's always amazing to me how many treasures of places there are just hidden all over this beautiful country.

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  7. What a beautiful place! Love the water falls and spring water. Very refreshing.

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  8. Oh my...it is BEAUTIFUL!! What a wonderful place to go... Great pictures!

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  9. Oh my goodness- that is a breathtaking place. Adding it to my list of places I must see one day.

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  10. Top picture collage- sometimes I think Fletcher looks so much like you, but there he looks so much like your husband!

    What a crazy-beautiful place. Love those waterfalls. That is the type of thing I could sit and stare at ALL. DAY. LONG.

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  11. I'm biased, I know, but I like the big full pictures more than the collages. You're just so amazing at your photo skillz!

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  12. Oh it's gorgeous! I'd love to have a place as pretty as that to spend our mornings! Our zoo has a little kids area and there's a big pool of fish that you can feed. Andrew thinks it's fascinating! But it's not that pretty - ha!

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