This was a good weekend to visit the banks of the Ohio River and its tributaries. Sunshine, drying mud ... a lot of good things were going on.
I got lots of good pictures of riverboats. I got new, good shots of the Nell, the Lawson W. Hamilton Jr., the Amber Brittany, the Capt. Ed Harris, and lots and lots of the Buckeye State.
There was even a shot I'd wanted to get for maybe a year, and I just missed it by a minute. But there will be other opportunities.
Having said that, this is my favorite river photo of the weekend.
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That's Adam by the mouth of the Kanawha River shortly after sunset. He's a kid who enjoys the river and who wants to live beside it someday, just as his dad did for many years and wants to do again.