Had to travel to Rochester this week and took a leisurely tour down and back up the St Croix river -- MN side down and WI side back. The river is mostly frozen, but here and there are open areas.
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| Nevers Dam landing |
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| Taylors Falls looking NE |
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| Hastings bridge over the Mississippi near where the St Croix joins |
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| I saw three trains traveling along the Mississippi -- this one at Hastings and the others going south at Prescott. All seemed like 100 cars or so. |
I stopped at Prescott, at the Great River Visitor Center
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| A sculpture at the visitor center -- looks like frozen roadkill stuck together. |
Reminds me of my own relatives who lived along the St Croix and sometimes ate clams, canned clams and searched for pearls. Grandpa made mom a mother-of-pearl cross, hand cut out form a shell in the depression days of the 1930s when buying something was impossible. She thought it was beautiful.
