rxlexi wrote:
fantastic pics, I love the randomness of the order. I saw these on SSP but don't really post there, so I'll give kudos to your creativity here! where are the pics of the river, on/near the sandbar taken, the MO around StL? I'd like to see some KC pics out of you some day
Thanks! The pictures of the river are on the Mississippi in the Columbia Bottoms Conservation Area in North St. Louis County, barely downriver of the confluence, directly across from where the Chain of Rocks Canal takes all commercial river traffic. It's a fantastic place to spend the day drinking beer and fishing in the sun (with a designated girlfriend driver). That's the famous and infamous Chain of Rocks Bridge (and already gritty New Chain of Rocks deck structure carrying I-270 into Illinois) downriver there, where Rt 66 used to cross over. Possibly barely visible are also the 2 Mississippi River intake cribs for the City of St. Louis.
I was indecisive on how many pictures to include. I wanted a theme, but I also had those Chicago pictures on SSP. I had a lot more pictures of Appalachia and Asheville, NC that I wanted to include but I couldn't find them, so I grabbed those pictures of the Ozarks from last March and September.
