Mississippi River 2

It is hard to express Minnesota's cold winter as photos. Really cold days are not when it snows, but characterized by clear skies and wind. I dared to take photos of the Mississippi River on those cold days with a hope that you can feel the cold Minnesota through them..., but maybe I failed.




Hastings. Freight trains (and sometimes SLs!) cross this iron bridge. It was so windy that senses of my hands and feet were gone just in a couple of minutes outside. Ices were floating on the surface of the river. At the town of Prescott, WI, which is located about 2 miles east from this bridge, the Mississippi River meets the St. Croix River, which comes from north, and turns to southeast to run down along the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin.




Downtown Minneapolis seen from St. Anthony Main. The temperature was -20C (or -4F). The river was not frozen because it had been relatively warm for a couple of days, but the water was vaporing from the surface due to the severe coldness.




Two towns, Anoka and Champlin, are connected by US169 through this bridge over the Mississippi River. The surface of the river was frozen and covered by snow for most part. However, there are several areas that were not, forming beautiful gradations here and there like a contour map. Birds were hanging out at those "watersides." Anoka is the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Rum River; the latter rises from Mille Lacs Lake up north.



Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar 3.5/75 [Heliopan Orange 22/B+W 090] TMY
Hastings/Minneapolis/Anoka MN USA January-Februrary 2007