Mississippi River

Here’s a few more photos taken near Lansing, Iowa, a little over a week ago on a very beautiful afternoon.  This first one is a zoomed shot taken from the shoreline of the Mighty Mississippi…

These next two were taken from up on Mt. Hosmer.  In this one, I was trying to zoom in on that group of yellow-gold trees over on the Wisconsin side…

And, this next view looks southeast across the backwaters and main channel.  Not long before taking these photos we had been driving on the highway that runs along the base of the bluffs over there on the Wisconsin side.  We saw many nice views of the river from over there, too, but didn’t stop for any picture-taking.

The valleys that reach inland from the river are called coulees.  Years ago in a high school English class, we read Main-Travelled Roads, a book of short stories by Hamlin Garland that took place in the coulees of southwest Wisconsin.