I took a trip to the park the other day. Ritter Spring Park north of Springfield, MO to be specific. I decided to take my trusty camera along to snap a few photos of what I saw while I was there. I also wanted to see how well Google My Tracks GPS tracking for Android on the T-Mobile G1 worked on a smaller scale. It worked well (see map of the path I walked below).
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I know that I don’t start and end at the same point. It was a little while before I thought of starting the application. On top of that, it’s a jumbled mess when you zoom in because I did a lot of backtracking to take some shots.
So, without further ado, the pictures. To be honest, I’m not even sure I was supposed to be walking down these paths because I was first greeted with this sign:
Park Sign: No Trespassing?
And then the rest:
Dead Tree
Running Stream with a Fallen Tree
Bird of Prey: Hawk? Falcon? Does anybody know?
A Group of Purple Flowers
A Group of Turtles Lying on a Fallen Tree
A Small Waterfall at the Edge of a Pond
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Does this park have a Japanese garden? I think I was at this park on Thursday last week…
Also I enjoy the crop on the stream, and the colors on the purple flowers…those are my favorite shots.
If this park has a Japanese garden, I didn’t see it. I know there’s one on south Scenic, but I’ve never been to it. This one is NE of the airport.
I think the flower one is my favorite too.
I like your turtles. We should all go out and take some pictures sometime. That would be a huge, fun nerdfest.
Agreed… and nerdfests are exciting.