After cooking all morning (potato salad, deviled eggs, etc.) and napping all afternoon, Norm and I took a walk through part of St. Vincent Park and the Incarnate Word Academy grounds. A tidy cemetery with neat rows of cross-shaped headstones is the final resting place of nuns who served at Incarnate Word hospital and at Incarnate Word Academy, a high school for girls. The school is still going strong in our neighborhood. The hospital was sold to a corporation years ago, and the convent, located on the far south end of the UMSL South Campus, may not be a residence for the Sisters any longer. The cemetery is just off the St. Vincent Greenway bike and hiking trail.
Our walk also took us past the athletic fields, where I took the photos of the mystery sports team shown below. Part of the field was full of robins, at least 30 of them, standing vigil in the freshly mown green grass, waiting for any sign of dinner. All of my attempts at telephoto shots were a little blurry. But this robin obligingly stood still not far from us at the entrance to the cemetery above. An inch and a half of rain on Thursday and Friday saturated the ground and has brought up many earthworms for the robins to feast upon.
At the far south end of Bel Nor, where Normandie Avenue turns into Arlmont street, the village has created this little pocket park, complete with a gazebo, which is a nice place for quiet contemplation on a calm, warm day. The building in the background used to belong to the Incarnate Word sisters but it now houses offices for the University. About 15 years ago it housed the UMSL Honors College, when Doug was a member there.
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