Biology Field Trip

We are back from our AMAZING Biology Field Trip to Badlands National Park, the Black Hills, Yellowstone National Park, and Grand Teton National Park.  I am not the designated photographer on our trips (this time, that was left primarily to Dr. Chad Scholes and Jay Sheth), but this is my favorite of the few pictures I took.  We hiked to the top of a plateau in the Badlands to watch the sunset.  Senior student Ben Bira and I clambered to the top of two hoodoos (rock spires), which turned out to be the best seats in the house.  This is a picture of  Ben from atop my hoodoo as the sun disappears behind the mountains.

Gallery Opening

On Friday night, Drs. Baceski, Martin, Miller, and Kovich and I attended a gallery opening for Rockhurst's own Anne Austin Pearce.  The opening was at the Sherry Leedy Gallery in the Crossroads Arts District, a district that hosts an evening event on the First Friday of each month in which local artists are celebrated and their art displayed.  Anne's work is stunning and the chance to discuss the pieces with her introduced a personal element that made them even more extraordinary.  The piece pictured here is entitled "The Ride;" and though I loved all of the paintings on exhibit, I was most moved by this work.