Stairway to nowhere
 

I have climbed the two largest Indian mounds in the US. One is this, the Emerald Mound, on the Natchez Trace Parkway. The other is the Cahokia Mound, near St. Louis.

Wow. It's like you can see the Ancestors dancing the Wheel from there!

Must have kinda sucked to be an early Mississippi Man, not only because you bang your head on the door every time you come home, but you are also so paranoid you keep three security cams in top of your hutch.

Go long
 

I love football season:

Cypress swamp
 

Very cool

Aw man, that's freaky. My buddy came over last night and he talked about what it's like to canoe into a cypress swamp. He said he was in thie one swamp where "you pass one tree... the you pass another... then you pass two trees... suddenly you look back and you're lost in the forest."

Until last night I had not given one thought to Cypress swamps, and I wake up to find you posted this

There is an awesome long-exposure large-format landscape photo just getting to be taken there.

Ask and receive
 

I need to go back to carrying the old Nikon FE. It was great for shots like this. I really need to upgrade. The little Coolpix is getting somewhat old and busted, but it has served me well.

It's one of those things that requires a negative as big as a print and a darkroom master to really pull off to potential, well beyond me - my skills stop at 6x7 ;)

May I ask, what happened to the cypress knees? Someone made lamps from them?

Ever since I was a small boy, I have wanted to take a couple days long canoe trip through the Okeefenokee swamp. Alone.

I had forgotten about that till I saw that picture. Hmmmmmmmm...

Not to mention that people keep making you carry big baskets of dirt and dumping them in the same place until you've made a really big pile of dirt.