Winter Adventures

One of the things I've learned living in the Midwest is that things change constantly. I'm saying... not just the Seasons, but from day to day. The weather is constantly changing and that creates landscape changes and wildlife changes. What I see one day can look totally different the next. This Winter is different from last year. The temperatures have been very very cold but there has been very little snow. We went to the River to photograph eagles and they weren't there for us. However... the frozen waves was a sight I had never seen before. 

Cool and beautiful! This is all ice.

Yep... the waves froze in motion. Isn't that amazing? I would love to see that as it happens.

 The spray froze. 

The sky was so blue it was reflected in the frozen waves...

What a treat for me! 

Waves freezing in motion and blue skies reflecting in them... Oh wow!!!

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Since the eagles were not hanging around at Dam 21 we decided to head South and see if they were at the lower dam... Sadly, they weren't there either.

But... like I said... 

Things look different from day to day and I am always happy when I see something new and different.

We had visited Lovers Leap in Hannibal, MO, back in October.

 But the batteries in my camera had died that day and we just took some photos with the little pocket camera. This time the Winter (late afternoon) Sun gave a golden glow to the bare trees and the River was frozen and there was a train.

With 2 cameras and fully charged batteries...
 We both took in the scenes and the glow of the Winter Sun.

This is Downtown Hannibal, taken from Lovers Leap.

 I had not even noticed this building before. What a difference it makes when the trees are bare and the Sun is in a different place in the sky. 

And this one...

In this shot ~

 you can see the Lighthouse up on the hill to the left of the bridge. I didn't know there were lighthouses on rivers. You can also see where a barge has left a path in the ice down the middle of the Mighty Mississippi. 

There are Silos on the other side in Illinois and a factory in the distance.

Richard captured this beautiful shot of the Lighthouse.

A very nice photo by Richard Gertz.

:o)

Across the River you can see an Illinois farm.

And just because I am a nut and take silly pics like this...

A gate I had not noticed before...

Back on the road... heading home... 

I have shot this barn before but I got the whole scene this time.

One of my photo goals is to get a picture

 of all the windmills at this place ~

 but it is on the highway so I don't know how I'm going to do it.

I like the way this turned out 

with the farmhouse in the center highlighted by the late afternoon sun...

Fields of gold...

In the setting sun...

The geese seem to be having trouble getting their V and heading in the right direction.

The sun is going down and we are almost home.

Another day of new and different things is coming to an end.

Next weekend we will try to photograph the eagles again.

Who knows what we will find.

Always an adventure.

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