Elevation of Macon County, MO, USA

Conrail Dash 8 at Ethel

View To Remember

Eastern Wood-Pewee at Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge

20190920 29 BNSF La Plata, Missouri

BNSF 6863 - 6/15/2014

Views From Amtrak

Have you seen an upland woods on the dissected till plains of northern Missouri in late March, ever?

EB near Hart Mo

Views From Amtrak

Views From Amtrak

Views From Amtrak

Views From Amtrak

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.

Out here slurping the waters of the U.S.'s brownest, least see-through rivers.

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.

Southwest Airlines departure view

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

In the central U.S., let MODERATELY DISSECTED TILL PLAINS be the lands your rural roads pass among.

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

Your puddles.

Cropland in treelessness in Missouri in March.

In the central U.S., let MODERATELY DISSECTED TILL PLAINS be the lands your rural roads pass among.

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.

My Distant Home

The Red Barn iin the Snow

Lonely

The Old Swimming Hole

House in the trees.

Big Red Barn

Winter Cemetery