March 16, 2009

Jake in the Wild

A couple of pictures of the SUB on patrol at the new Busch Connector trail, linking the Katy Trail to the Missouri Research Park. At least on my screen, these pictures reflect the true cornea-burning intensity of the violent orange paint compared to the stock image in the previous post. Think of a traffic cone, only with the orange shifted more to "surface of the sun" than your average traffic cone.
Oh, and that lovely creek there? Yeah. That's outflow from the sewage treatment plant at the top of the trail/hill. It looks clean, but it is not exactly smelling like daisies. In fact it smells more like a rabid skunk who rolled in its own feces, then found a nice pile of horse manure to roll in, then topped it off with some earthy chlorine notes with rotten egg overtones for good effect. Only in St. Louis would the planners put a scenic nature trail right next to a sewage plant.

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