More River

Flying from Byerley airstrip, near Lake Providence, LA.

 How's that for a load, 25 barges going down river,

one towboat with probably a 5 man crew.

This would be equivalent to 335 jumbo rail cars,

or 1450 large semi trucks!

The river is low now, even for this time of year....

 They're forever doing maintenance to keep the stream flowing deep.

These groins deflect the flow to the outside of the bend.

And cause silt to deposit behind them.

 All this lower river is confined by levee banks,

to prevent flooding of the lower flood plain.

Improving the levee.....

 The Greenville Bridge, and ever present levee.

It's a beautiful bridge, 

only 10 years old and almost glows in the sunlight....

Bridges are such valuable infrastructure in this river-dominated country....

Some more farming patterns, very precise.

This would be somewhere near where some folk reckon that,

the Phelps Farm, mentioned in Huck Finn's adventures, would have been....

Here's a very secluded hideaway....

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This is the very first photo that I took when I flew my first sightseeing flight in 2012.
And knew that I wanted to return for a better look at this mighty Mississippi River!