An Evening at the Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden has a summer concert series. After 5 pm admission is free and folks begin to arrive with picnic dinners. A few hours later the music starts.

We spent the evening checking out a new exhibit of "tree houses".  There were quite a few neat designs, and all included lots of wood scraps, bark, etc.

The kids liked this one. Here they are on the inside:

Here's another one, a freestanding play house with tree-bark siding.

Soon, we were off to the Children's Garden.

It's one of the kids' favorite parts of the Botanical Garden; full of hands-on, climb-upon exhibits for kids.

This little watercourse illustrates how locks and dams work. In the past, there were boats there too. The boats were gone this time, though.

Then we were off to explore the caves.

Last stop of the day? Snowcones.

Ah, summer.