Man's best cake
The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog, located in Queeny Park. It is home to the world's finest collection of art devoted to the dog.
It had the constellation Canis Major above the door and it had the star Sirius which is known as the Dog Star. That's why Sirius radio has a dog and its mascot.
Insider there are over 700 original paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, sculptures, bronzes, and porcelain figurines, and a variety of decorative arts objects depicting man's best friend throughout the ages.
Cake artist - Lindsay Harmon
One hundred-eighty-two down 68 to go.
Maintenance cake
I do not know how many times I wanted to do something only to miss it by a few weeks, months, or even years. When is the next time the Urge is playing down at Mississippi Nights? I am not too sure it will be anytime soon the place has been closed for years. A day late and a dollar short would be very close for me. So when I heard that there was a cake at the Our Lady of the Rivers statue I figured that I would go see the blessing of the fleet and a cake at the same time. I found out that the blessing already happened for this year, so again I was right on top of the situation.
Being that it was a beautiful day I decided to ride out and check out the cake at the statue. It was a nice drive through cornfields and farmland to the little town on the river. I noticed that the cake was a dog cake and I figured that maybe the orginal cake was some how damaged during the recent flood in the area. While I was at the statue there were some people taking care of the area, watering flowers and general clean up, such as getting rid of huge logs left by the flood. I asked them about the cake and they told me that it is the original and as a matter of fact they had to move the cake because of the flood. A tip of the hat to Lynn, Judy and Terry for taking good care of the cake and moving it before the flood.
Guest blogger - Rich
Cake artist - Lindsay Harmon
One hundred-twenty-six down 124 to go.
The West Alton Memorial Park has the Veteran's Memorial, the
Memorial Bricks and a cake. The cake is
decorated as homage to bad weather.
The
cake is adorned with floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes. I could see how the city of West Alton would
be keenly aware about the weather being that it is only about few miles from where
the Missouri and Mississippi converge.
West Alton looks to me how it would have looked like one hundred years
ago. This area might not be the best
land for residential use but is a good area for farming and wildlife.
Thanks Rich.
Cake artist - Lindsay Harmon
Twenty-seven down 223 to go
Take Two.
This was our second visit to Historic St. Charles to find cakes. During our first visit the cakes weren’t out yet or had wrong addresses listed. Since Colin is on spring break and it was such a nice day, we thought it was a good opportunity to go back and find the cakes. We did find the cakes however, they weren’t as accessible as the other cakes we have found. We did not know that the places were either closed on Mondays or opened around noon (we got there at 10am).
The first cake we found was at the St. Charles County Historic Courthouse. The Courthouse is under renovations and the cake was actually blocked off with caution tape. We weren’t sure why it was, but we let the kids run down there for a quick photo. We didn’t want to stay too long by the cake so we didn’t really get a good look at it.
The St. Charles County Historic Courthouse was once the courthouse for St. Charles County. Today it is home to the county executive’s office, the office of public information, the county counselor’s office, the county council and the merit system commission.
The next cake we found was at the St. Charles First Missouri State Capitol. St. Charles was Missouri’s first state capitol from 1821 to 1826 while the capitol was being developed in Jefferson City, which is Missouri’s state capitol today.
This cake was actually hiding behind a fence and since the building didn’t open until noon, we couldn’t go in to take a good look. I was able to snap a picture between the fence posts though. /span>
We did find one store that was open on Main Street, Grandma’s Cookies. We could smell them a block away. Yum!
Ten and eleven down 239 to go.
I would like to thank my guest blogger, Diane, my daughter and Colin and Andrew's mom, for writing about these cakes.
Cake artist
Zack Farmer and Erica Kaiser
Lindsay Harmon
