#Missouri Ozarks

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Two beautiful scenes, two very different oak habitats. The first is my childhood creek, rather unceremoniously named "Dutro-Carter Branch", in Rolla, Mo. It runs through mostly badly damaged to completely erased oak-hickory forest, with just a thin veil of habitat on either bank, where it exists at all. The other is Cooper Mountain in Tualitin, OR, where Garry oak savanna and woodland are being restored amid patches of Ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forest. I arrived back in the PNW last Thursday evening after five days of driving and immediately leaped back into teaching the next day. While I've scarcely had time to stop and rest, and the next several days will be similarly busy, I'm glad I get to ground myself in these beautiful, fragmented places in nature.

[oliviarosaline]

False Rue Anemone

Enemion biternatum

St. Charles County, Missouri, USA

March 13th, 2024

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[shutterandsentence]

Do not be afraid. No one can speak or do anything that is outside of God's plan.

Photo: Branson, Missouri

[adventurecoreadjacentbabe]

rocky falls in mo, in the ozarks in january

[wildmanofthewood]

Northern lights I the Ozark’s last night!

[glutenfreeweed457]

[feralunicorn426]

Visited one of my favorite spots and even in the moon/star light, I could tell something was different. Before I charged into, or through, anything, I started taking pics.

[homesteadsissies]

Weekly Update: 1.13.24

As I draft this week's update, it's hard not to sound a repetitive: "It's very cold. We were sick again. We didn't get anything done on the bunkhouse. We are trying doing our best to trust God about it all. The end."

As I draft this week’s update, it’s hard not to sound repetitive. It’s very cold. We were sick again. We didn’t get anything done on the bunkhouse. We are doing our best to trust God about it all. The end. How many recent updates could be summed up this way? And yet, here we are again, in what feels like some sort of weird loop that we can’t get out of. We are sick with what is, we think, our…

[cygnetbrown]

Organizing for a Profitable 2024

Last year my best sales occurred at the farmer’s market and at nearby festivals. I plan to change that this year. HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE! Can you believe another year has passed and we are now in 2024?  I have often wondered why the year started at the beginning of winter rather than the beginning of spring. However, after thinking about it for a few weeks, I have decided that it makes a lot…

[lensandpenpress]

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD POETIC PROMOTION OF OZARK FLOAT TRIPPING

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD POETIC PROMOTION OF OZARK FLOAT TRIPPING

1922 Missouri Pacific booklet, 31 pages, photographically illustrated. This gem rhapsodically describes recreational assets of the upper White River. The artist-illustrated cover depicts the target middle class traveler looking for an idyllic vacation. Before Jim Owen and later John Morris pitched fishing the Ozarks, the Missouri Pacific railroad lured visitors to “the White River Country in the…

[missouri-backroads]

[rebeccathenaturalist]

So I went on a phenology walk at Ozark Audubon today. We were mainly looking for any flowers that might have survived the freeze a few days ago, but we found some other neat stuff, too. This was one of the coolest! Look closely at the end of the branch--you can see where it has been neatly carved away, and then snapped in the center after the branch died.

That's the work of the female twig girdler (Oncideres cingulata), a species of longhorn beetle found in the east and midwest United States. She girdles the branch of a hardwood tree, lays her eggs in the branch, and then after it falls the eggs hatch and the larvae feed on the dead wood.

[oliviarosaline]

Lion's Mane Mushroom

Hericium erinaceus

A wonderful surprise awaited us while on a hike. Lion's Mane has a very mild flavor and contains bioactive compounds that have been proven to improve brain health. Remember to always forage respectfully and sustainably.

Crawford County, Missouri, USA

Oct. 6th, 2023

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[wandering-jana]

Hello there.

Lake of the Ozarks State Park, Missouri

July 2022

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

[federer7]

Sharecropper shack. Kitchen of Ozarks cabin purchased for Lake of the Ozarks project. Missouri. May 1936.

Photo by Carl Mydans, Resettlement Administration.

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