The Osage County Courthouse was not that bad even though my photograph of it turned out horrible. It’s almost like sunlight can be an issue when it comes to photography or something. I also realized that my feelings about it were influenced by the other courthouses I had seen on the trip, many of which had not impressed me. My daughter thought it was a decent courthouse and I value her opinion in most things, so I’ll not judge it too deeply. Besides, after Hermann, anything would feel lesser so I guess Osage County benefits from that. While I felt that I had seen courthouses like it in the past, I couldn’t quite put my finger on any approximation of architectural style. Later investigation showed it to be Federalist, a style I had seen often in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
We found the cache on the way into town. I understand if you have trouble seeing it considering how cleverly and thoroughly hidden it was. Finding that huge plastic box in that tree was beyond the textbook definition of “easy peasy, lemon squeezy.” But after some of the winding, back road stuff of Warrenton and Montgomery City or the throngs of folks in St. Charles and Hermann, it was more than welcome. We were just visitors and all we wanted to do was get the cache and then head down the road again for…
