Missouri Valley, IA

Sunday & Monday, Sept 18 & 19, 2016

Sunday, as we headed to Tic's brother Darrell & sister-in-law Lila, we drove past this school that trained linemen.  The day before we actually saw them on many of the poles.

Notice some of the pole have wires and others don't.  We saw men on both kinds of poles.  We did not have our camera with us at the time.

 After lunch, we left Sheldon, IA headed to Wilson Island State Park near Missouri Valley, IA.  We are here for 2 nights so we can visit with Tic's aging Uncle Court (81) and Aunt Norma (80).  Court has gone blind and Norma has dementia which the family tells us is progressing quickly.

We made it to the park about 4:30pm.  We talked to Tic's Aunt and Uncle and they had just gotten home from a family get-together and were tired.  We plan to see them about noon on Monday.

This is our site at the park.  We have 50 amp electric but no water or sewer.  Both are available but not at any site. 

There are only us and one other parked in this loop of the park.  We feel like we have the park to ourselves.

The Missouri River runs along the outer edge of this park.
 

The picture above and the 2 below are sunset on the Missouri River.

Monday morning we decided to walk through the park.  We saw these mushrooms growing.  Below is a top view.  Cool pictures!

Above is a common Northern Flicker.  The birds below are Starlings.

Below are more bird pictures from the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge.

Looks like a painting.

Tic's dead tree picture.  In case you have not read before, Tic finds dead trees very photogenic.  So do I.


The sun is starting to set.  The clouds are very interesting.

Lake  in DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. Almost looks like an alligator.  Ha Ha

More beautiful sunset pictures.

We finished the day by a campfire.  The mosquitoes were bad so I hoped a fire would keep them away.  That only worked if you were close to the fire.  Well I enjoy campfires anyway.