The front door to photo albums of places along the Mississippi River.
The Crescent City; the Big Easy; The City that Care Forgot; the Birthplace of Jazz. New Orleans goes by many names. Take a look around the city with me; here's a gallery of a few of the pictures I've taken on recent trips. I'll be adding more in the next few months.
There's a reason that the state slogan of Arkansas is The Natural State. Arkansas has natural beauty in abundance. Most people probably know about the Ozarks and its famous streams, but there's also plenty of natural beauty along the Mississippi River. It's a remarkably wild part of the state, more so than people realize. Only
Flooding at St. Louis (photo taken Dec. 31, 2015). See more photos here. High water at St. Louis; Dec. 31, 2015
The river's face is ever changing. It can be mirror-like on still days, reflecting whatever is nearby--clouds, trees, photographers. On a windy day, white-caps roll and churn and roil the water. Objects below the surface send ripples to the top, subtle expressions that reveal potential hazards to those who can interpret their language. As the sun crosses up and over
The Mississippi River creeps toward downtown Alton, Illinois (photo taken December 31, 2015). See more photos here. Flooding at Alton, IL
In Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain wrote "one cannot see too many summer sunrises on the Mississippi." I'm not much of a morning person, so I don't have the breadth of experience to judge the quality of sunrises, but I have seen my share of sunsets along the Mississippi. They aren't too bad, either. As
