Not quite robbing banks...

It's been a busy few days, so I haven't had a chance to put any of these photos up until now, but Ms. Geranium decided against robbing banks on her birthday. Instead, we took a drive to southwestern Wisconsin to follow the Great River Road along the upper Mississippi River. The weather was a bit on the wet side. If you would like, you can enbiggen the photos by clicking on them. They look a little better that way.

As you head southwest out of Madison, the terrain looks a lot like this.

And this.

It starts to get hillier as you get closer to the Mississippi.

The road takes you through valleys and up on the tops of ridges.

A barn in the process of, well, something...

I had to get a picture of this road sign. There were an awful lot of (Something) Hollow Roads.

Right across the street was this cemetery.




This guy lived in three different centuries!



We took a ferry from Cassville, Wisconsin across the Mississippi to Iowa. Cassville is known as a good place for eagle spotting. We saw a couple of juvenile eagles, but I would have needed a longer lense to get any good pictures of them. Ms. Geranium may have some good shots, but her camera uses something called film, which doesn't provide the instant gratification of digital.
Here's the birthday girl and our two daughters on the ferry.
(Smile! Come on, it's your mother's birthday. Pretend you love each other.)

The mighty Mississippi. It's a pretty impressive body of water even this far north.

The Mississippi River valley from the Iowa side.

And another.

Heading back into Wisconsin, we made a stop in Dickeyville, WI, to take a look at the Dickeyville Grotto, but that's a whole nuther post. It ended up being a pretty long day, about 9 hours of driving, including stops here and there, but it was a nice trip. Someday I'd like to follow the Mississippi from it's source in Minnesota all the way to it's end.