Son and his wife are visiting us his week from Seattle.
We traveled up to the Burnt Mill Conservation area near Climax Springs and walked around a bit.
This is owned by the Missouri Department of Conservation and has thousands of hickory nut trees and other interesting plants.
I picked up a half dozen paw paws and will dry these and try starting the seeds.
Another interesting critter I found was the elusive “green dragon” plant that features little red berries on a cone shaped head. The green dragon is from the jack in the pulpit family and grows along creeks and moist areas.
Burnt Mill has a cave somewhere on the hillside but we couldn’t locate it.
The property has a creek that occasionally feeds into the Little Niangua River that eventually flows into the Lake of the Ozarks.
That’s great. I’m going to have to visit that area to get a paw paw! Hubby said we have one around here somewhere, but he can’t remember where he saw it.
We got a flyer from the St. Louis area center, and they have some great beginning gun classes this September and other fun stuff for kids, so we are thinking about going into the city for those.
We’ll have to check out the location first to make sure what neighborhood they are in.