Mississippi River Overlook

[stormdog]

There are so very many cultural concepts all tied up together in the Mississippi River. It's metaphorical tendrils extend into boyish adventure, modernist development, slavery and racism, changing transportation paradigms, great public works, commerce and trade, beautiful bridges, nature and wildlife, and so much more.

Humans have this amazing way of investing a single concept with a plethora of meanings, and that's wonderful to me. This picture makes me think, in some ways, of all of those things.

If I'm not mistaken, Posi has a photo of his own from this overlook that he had used as a custom design on a credit card!