When my son and granddaughter were in town recently, the mandatory first stop for the kid was the ride to the top of the Arch. It is trian...

  A sculpture by Harry Weber, whose work is all around here, called The Captains' Return . It depicts Meriwether Lewis and William Clark...

  Rare missed day yesterday. I still can’t shake this bronchitis and haven’t been out much. Just a couple of pictures left from my brief Sat...

Climbing out of St. Louis on the way to the first of two connections at big airports. This is the  confluence of the Missouri and Mississipp...

This is just behind the view in yesterday’s picture. The river is high for this time of year. A heliport on a barge sits in the Mississippi....

Yesterday we looked down into the baseball stadium from a high rise’s rooftop restaurant. Turning left, we face east toward the Arch, Missis...

  The last part of how a barge flotilla gets through Lock and Dam 26 on the Mississippi. The group has been broken into two sets of two barg...

  In yesterday’s post, we saw how a push boat shoves the whole 3 by 6 barge flotilla into the lock. At this point, the front and back halves...

  The front of the barge flotilla pushes into the lock. If you have a big enough monitor you may see two crew members on the front corners. ...

  The power it takes to push a barge flotilla on the Mississippi - especially upriver - is almost unimaginable. I once toured one of these b...

  Although we didn’t spot any eagles on our trip upriver on Saturday, we did get to see something interesting. An explanation: there is lots...

  We are having the coldest weather we’ve had in years. The forecast high is for today 9 F / -13 C. No trash talk from people in Minnesota, ...

Few things in St. Louis say slow as persistently as a barge struggling upstream against the torrent of the Mississippi River. Sunset on a cl...

  CDP’s September monthly theme is bridges. Given the rivers around here, we have plenty. This was taken at the dedication of the newest one...

My last office before I retired looked directly over the Mississippi River. When I was tired of pushing paper or clicking screens, I would w...

  A couple of days ago I ran a picture of a carriage similar to this, but forlorn-looking and parked in a run-down industrial area. I remark...

We often take granddaughter Ellie out for some activity on Saturday, and happily there are plenty in our area. Last weekend she wanted to vi...

A statue of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (and a goofy looking dog) in a small boat at the Mississippi River. Lewis and Clark, with the...

St. Louis grew from the Mississippi River. Today, the river remains one of the main arteries of America with huge barge flotillas carrying f...

There is a delightful band of waterlogged vagabonds calling itself The Flotsam River Circus, http://www.rivercircus.com/about.html . They h...