The last game at Busch II was played 15 years ago today. The Astros beat the #STLCards 5-1, to take the NLCS in 6 games. Here’s a photo I took of the stadium (from the Arch) in 2003 and a composite panorama from inside on the same trip.

#birbs

9 a.m., 14 October 2020, St. Louis, MO, USA. Part of the #adayinthelife Micro.blog event.

Morning visitors

“We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there’s only one direction. And time is its only measure.”

― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

A neat fossil-containing rock I found in the creek behind my house the other day