Outdoors Reporter Sara Karnes is visiting trails and conservation areas to photograph the sights and write about her adventures. Look for her articles online and in print.
Lewis County, Mo. — This story was supposed to be about mining geodes. I was going to regale y'all with tales of slinging dirt in order to find the buried minerals, but it wasn't meant to be.
The forecast across most of the state has been giving drought-like conditions, but the one corner geodes are prominent, the skies opened and doused the areas we were scheduled to visit.