Posts that highlight a place along the Mississippi River
Tundra swans have returned to the Mississippi Valley for their annual autumn visit. Last weekend south of Brownsville, the area north of Lock and Dam #8 counted some 10,000 swans, with a few thousand more yet to come. The photo below was taken last Sunday (November 18, 2012). See more Pictures of the Day here. Tundra
Southeast Minnesota's Reno Bottoms in late fall. (Photo taken October, 2010) See more Pictures of the Day here. Reno Bottoms (MN)
The view from Fountain Bluff, north of Grand Tower, Illinois. Photo taken October 2012. Fountain Bluff overlook
This is a composite of three photos taken at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in October 2012, at Fort Defiance State Park near Cairo, Illinois; the Ohio is on the left and the Mississippi on the right. Just over a year before, the point from where I took these photos was under
Just south of Cape Girardeau (Missouri), the Mississippi River cuts a seven-mile gorge through the thick limestone of the Shawneetown Ridge. The gorge, known as the Thebes Gap or the Grand Chain, is as narrow as 3,000 feet in places and was notoriously difficult to navigate, at least until the Army Corps of Engineers began blasting
Lock and Dam #6 at dusk. Picture taken October 2010 at Trempealeau, Wisconsin. Lock and Dam #6; Trempealeau, Wisconsin
