
Warbonnets Over the Des Moines

The long, slow fade into obscurity

Good colorful wall.

A commercial strip downtown!

Hanging of Frank Clark

Keokuk Rail Bridge

Keokuk Lock and Dam- Keokuk IA (2)

East Medill railscape . . . but not for long

East Medill

The Fox River in the extreme northeastern corner of Missouri is uninteresting to look at: a big letdown!

Keokuk Iowa distressed townscape, a smalltown distress.

Windmill Blades on Flatcars

Mississippi River at Keokuk IA (5)

Mississippi River at Keokuk IA (3)

Mississippi River at Keokuk IA (4)

Out for a weird walk on a distressed sidewalk in Keokuk.

The Grass is Greener

Good door with eyebrow, curtains, and tripping hazards.

I am trying to MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND what a typical rural backroad looks like in Clark County, Missouri.

Keokuk Lock and Dam & Rail Bridge, Keokuk, IA

Keokuk Rail Bridge Observation Deck, Keokuk, IA

Alternative Argyle

Keokuk Rail Bridge Observation Deck, Keokuk, IA (2)

In Missouri is a bend in a gravel road with a beat-up guardrail, during an autumn gloom, in a rural region of flat lands and low hills.

Wyaconda River muddy mess.

Wyaconda River mudshow.

Here were Melvin and Viala at Fox River bridge, in a spraypaint expression of rural companionship.

What can be done about these unsightly blotches!

Here was a distinctively fluvial "madness of Wyaconda," as performed by the Wyaconda River.

Very very rare digital picture of the Little Wyaconda River.

Pictorial commemorations of various instances of low-water conditions on the Wyaconda River.

From 1907, a former factory of delicious fruit preserves.

Mississippi River, Keokuk (Iowa), 15 August 2013

MAYBE YOU COULD THANK ME for being the first person, probably, to show you pictures of the Wyaconda River.

It's from 1928 and cute, with its cute brick "+" symbols and its cute clapboard doorway.

Three stories' worth of supposedly inherent praiseworthiness of the history of 19th century architecture in the U.S. midwest.

Lies

Downtown Monticello, Missouri

Southwest Airlines departure view

Keokuk Union Depot (KUD)

Keokuk Union Depot (KUD)

No passing, no prospering zone

Typical of the U.S. midwest!

Old Athens Mill Site (Battle of Athens State Historic Site, Missouri)

Des Moines River- Farmington IA

Controlled Burn

Des Moines River (Farmington, Iowa)

Milky Motion

The New Argyle

Northeast Missouri Farm (Athens, Missouri)