Mississippi River Steam

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Tuesday ~ October 15, 2024

Posted by Dave Updegraff on October 15, 2024
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Welcome

Last Friday I finally took my camera and toured around the river.  Saw a lot of things and enjoyed myself.  Since I am retired you would think that I would be out every day with my camera, alas I have a tendency get side tracked.

So I spent some time at the river.  Wasn’t happy with what I had to photographed so I settled for some Mallard Ducks who had gathered near some drift wood.

Then I heard a loud engine coming from the river.  I’m not sure how fast this jet ski was traveling but I had a hard time keeping in the sweet spot of the camera.

Then the other side of river travel.  A nice slow pontoon boat and a leisurely cruise up the river on a beautiful afternoon.  I would take the slow boat first. 🙂

Now Dubuque is not exactly a small town with 60 thousand plus citizens,  so the odds of me running into anyone I know when I’m back in the sticks is unlikely.  However I ran into my Son, Daughter-in-Law, and my little Grandson.  What a treat that was and how unexpected it was.

The Video below is only 3.5 minutes long and some pretty scenery.

Enjoy your day and be careful.

Monday ~ December 19, 2016

Posted by Dave Updegraff on December 19, 2016
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Happy Monday!

I have four images today.  After early church yesterday, Jeanne and I took a photo run down to the river.  We saw a couple of eagles sitting high in the trees but none were fishing at the dam.  The steam was rising for a far as the eye could see with a lot of open water mixed with ice below the dam.  I have never seen this much steam rising from the river.

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We didn’t find anything of interest at the dam so we drove up to Mud Lake Park.  I enjoy going up there and have occasionally be rewarded with some great images.  We saw this pair of eagle watching the river from a fallen tree.  It’s not tack sharp but I thought it worthy of the post.

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I think most of the wildlife was hunkered down as the static temperature was -11 and the windchill was somewhere around -25 degrees.  I know that when I got out of the car to compose and take a photograph my face started hurting by the time I got back in the car.

I saw this little sparrow sitting in the tree and wanted to make an image of him so I didn’t come home with an empty card.  🙂

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On the way home found this guy sitting in the tree.  I figured he would fly when I stopped the car and got out but he didn’t.  He tolerated me while I fired off some images.  He stayed there the entire time and when we left he was still there.

That’s it for today.  Still -4 but supposed to warm up to a balmy 15 degrees today.  I have my final post op check up late this afternoon and hopefully he will tell me I can resume my normal routine.  I’m tired of trying to sleep with that shield on.  🙂

Enjoy your day, stay warm and be careful.