Stearns Quarry Park

This afternoon I went for a bike ride and stopped for a break at Stearns Quarry Park. From the street the park looks like nothing more than a mound covered in clumps of straggling prairie grass. But hidden behind the mound is a magical landscape of flowing water and limestone.  On a whim I had tossed my camera into the rack-top bag on the back of my bike, so I was able to get a few photos of the local fauna. Rats are admittedly pretty common in the city, especially in the vicinity of water. Rats this shade of red and violet are less common I think.

The pegasus I believe is a pretty rare sighting. Sometimes by the lakeshore there are infestations of dragon flies. Hordes of them swirling and dive-bombing and circling. In the courtyard of my building there are a couple of butterfly bushes and most afternoons a couple of butterflies drop in to prove the worth of the plants' name. The neighborhood where I live is renowned for the parrots living in the park canopies. But a pegasus I've never seen within the city limits. Until today.