Mississippi River View

Driving home from Quad Cities last night along the Mississippi River, I noticed a long queue of semi trucks loaded with corn at a grain elevator.

This sounds crazy, but it was beautiful. The beautiful and unseasonably warm weather has allowed farmers to put some long hours in the field to get their crops in and to market. I seldom think about their hard work. The lengthening shadows of the grain elevators across the glass-smooth Mississippi River in the indigo and violet dusk was a jolt of unexpected beauty.

The air was crisp and filled with a tangy scent of burning leaves with a diesel chaser. Like a rope of golden pearls, reflector dots outlining the harvest filled trucks, inched toward the grain elevator scale platform along the service road. An ethereal landscape... I imagine it was a very long night for those at the end of the line.

Mississippi Blues with handsaw and guitar (60sec)

What a beautiful river. Driving through some of the tiny villages that populate the rivers edge you might wonder what the inhabitants do for a living... it's a long way from town in some cases. Beautiful views from the homes on the high banks, but what. do. they. do?

For a living, for entertainment (besides watching the seasons change, which might be enough)... writers? Artists? Just retired? Hard to say.

Mississippi River site