Tour of St. Louis #4- The Shaw Nature Reserve
When I was growing up, Shaw Nature Reserve was called "The Arboretum" and so my family still refers to it by that name. I use both names, depending on whether I am reminiscing about it to a family member or recommending to a new St. Louis resident that they visit this place. The Shaw Nature Reserve is beautiful any time of year. It has everything from prairies to forests, streams, cliff views, a river and fields of daffodils in the spring.
http://www.shawnature.org/
This is my favorite place in the world. Yes, I know I haven't visited every place in the whole world and I am sure there are more exotic places, but the Shaw Nature Reserve holds more wonder for me than most places I have been or seen. The first memories of my life are vistas from "the arboretum".
After I was born and before we moved from MO the first time, my dad had a job at the arboretum as a maintenance mechanic. As part of the job, we lived on the land in a little house inside the second entrance for a time. When we moved to a different house we continued to visit often before we moved away to South Carolina later. For the next six years while living in SC and New York, I would often get images flashing into my mind or have dreams of certain vistas that were so beautiful, but I couldn't remember where I had seen them. I thought I had made them up until we moved back and I saw the Shaw Nature Reserve again.
(Photos by Laelia Watt)
When I was younger, it was my dream to get married there, but they didn't allow larger, non-educational groups to hold functions. BUT RECENTLY, they relocated historic Missouri buildings onto the property near their educational building and might allow business or other non-educationally related groups to hold meetings or dinners. In other words, now there's a slight possibility of holding a wedding there! Now all I need to do is find the man....
http://www.shawnature.org/
This is my favorite place in the world. Yes, I know I haven't visited every place in the whole world and I am sure there are more exotic places, but the Shaw Nature Reserve holds more wonder for me than most places I have been or seen. The first memories of my life are vistas from "the arboretum".
After I was born and before we moved from MO the first time, my dad had a job at the arboretum as a maintenance mechanic. As part of the job, we lived on the land in a little house inside the second entrance for a time. When we moved to a different house we continued to visit often before we moved away to South Carolina later. For the next six years while living in SC and New York, I would often get images flashing into my mind or have dreams of certain vistas that were so beautiful, but I couldn't remember where I had seen them. I thought I had made them up until we moved back and I saw the Shaw Nature Reserve again.
(Photos by Laelia Watt)
When I was younger, it was my dream to get married there, but they didn't allow larger, non-educational groups to hold functions. BUT RECENTLY, they relocated historic Missouri buildings onto the property near their educational building and might allow business or other non-educationally related groups to hold meetings or dinners. In other words, now there's a slight possibility of holding a wedding there! Now all I need to do is find the man....
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