Bluffs along the Great River Road

Spent the first couple of weeks home going through mail and pulling weeds in our courtyards. Last Sunday we drove over to Grafton and Pere Marquette via the Great River Road. Always a pretty drive. Stopped at our favorite eating and drinking venue, The Loading Dock, and had a late lunch. Located on the Mississippi River, people come to this place by bike, motor cycle, boat, and on foot. It's very popular and always entertaining. And yesterday after watching yet another dismal Rams football game we went over to the Columbia Bottom Conservation area and hiked the river's edge trail. This trail goes along the Missouri River through some old growth forest that was probably here when Lewis and Clark camped in the area in 1804. In some areas the undergrowth and viney stuff is so thick that you're hiking through a tunnel of lush vegetation. Very pretty. Picked up a couple of sandwiches for dinner on the way home.