
View To Remember

I present to you a visual counterpart to the toponym "East Fork Little Chariton River."

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I have proposed that UNESCO's World Heritage Committee should designate rural Macon County, Missouri, as a cultural landscape of universal value to humankind.

In northern Missouri WE RITUALLY BATHE OUR HEARTS AND BRAINS in the waters of the Middle Fork Little Chariton River.

Sunshine warms the opaque brown waters of the Middle Fork Salt River in Macon County, Missouri.

Let the Middle Fork Little Chariton River be your brown.

Mudland mudscape of cropland landscape, with small gullies.

Let spectacular views of the East Fork Little Chariton River be one of the things you remember most about Macon County, Missouri.

This was a view upon a gravel road in northern Missouri, late one Saturday morning in March of '22, during a mostly sunny condition.

Roadside zigzag of back up, turn around.

From 1936, a building.

Lil slice o' Callao.

Here were Berkshire Hathaway railroad tracks, passing through northern Missouri in late March of '22.

Weird smalltown trees in the village of Callao, Missouri, at a wall of light gray metal.

NICE - NEC 1850 LCD Monitor with added Speaker Bar

For this one I looked diagonally across a roadside ditch, toward a spread of farmland.

Your puddles.

Cropland in treelessness in Missouri in March.

Ah the Chariton River, huge and brown and rural and famous.

On a desolate gravel road we passed among FLOODPLAIN CROPLAND, in the floodplain of the CHARITON RIVER in Missouri.

In its manmade channel the Chariton River brings its silts.

"Sewer Creek," it's called.

Agricultural dirtscape of northern Missouri late March.

In northern Missouri see a shallow ditch of mud between a field of mud and a field of mud.

Ah the Middle Fork Salt River in northern Missouri, a riverine expression of middles, forks, and salts.

Pass it on: For young people in northern Missouri, the "East Fork Little Chariton River Challenge" is the new Tide Pod Challenge.

The Red Barn iin the Snow

The Old Swimming Hole

House in the trees.

Big Red Barn

Winter Cemetery

The Falling Barn

Blossums

Crossroad Christmas Tree

Mausoleum Entry to Oakwood Cemetery.

Red Lake

Lake Sunrises

Sunrise at Fishing Hole

Long-Branch-Shelf

Long Branch State Park

Sunrise in the Fog.

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Roadside guywire touchdown at cropland.

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