Snowed Again!!!

Here we go again.  This is taken from our back deck north of LeClaire Iowa.  The Mississippi River looks cold today.

We are taking some photography classes, so maybe we will get some better pictures….

Snow Again!!!

It could have been worse, only a couple of inches and melting fast.

More Mississippi River Backwaters

Some more pictures:

 

 
Note the flood gate which controls the water levels in the different pools.  The muskrat lodge is in this pool, just on the other side of the tree on the left.

Mississippi River Backwaters

Here are some more pictures from the Princeton Iowa wildlife refuge. 

What a nice day and it is Saturday!

It was in the 50’s today and sunny!  Just the right weather to blow off the stink and take the two male dogs for a walk down by the river.  Here are the resident geese that live year round down on the canal.  The male can be particularly noisy as he protects his harem.

Ice Fishing

Check out the cover of Our Iowa magazine, ice fishing north of here on the river. That dog has it pretty good.
http://www.ouriowamagazine.com/

Melting this weekend!

 
But first it is getting cold again, but we are not having ice storms!

Mississippi River Runs East and West

This morning I visited the Illinois side of the River and took pictures  at their I-80 rest stop. The river takes a turn in the Quad Cities and runs east and west with Iowa being north of the river.  Just upstream of the I-80 bridge the river takes its turn to the west.  Or to look [...]

Remember that rainbow from the summer rain?

Sick of winter here….

Day Tripping Quad Cities to Leclaire

Here is another link from Big River Magazine, about day tripping from Moline, Davenport up to Le Claire Iowa.
http://www.big-river.com/highlights.html