Sunset over the Mississippi River

Sunset on the Mississippi River - August 27, 2011

You can find remarkable things about the creation just about anywhere you happen to go. My wife and I took this photo last weekend on the banks of the Mississippi River at sunset. (Click on the image to see a larger version of it.) We had gone after having supper at a local pizza cafe to Mud Island, a peninsula of land jutting out into the river near downtown Memphis. It seemed like it would be a nice evening for a stroll with our daughter. It was that, and we ended up being treated to a spectacular sunset as well.

If you aren't familiar with rivers this large, you can be forgiven for thinking this is a photograph of a good sized lake. But no, that's the main channel of the Mighty Mississippi. We're standing in Tennessee, and the tree line silhouetted on the far shore is in my home state of Arkansas. I grew up less than an hour and a half from this spot and have traveled to Memphis all my life. But I don't think I've ever gotten to see the way the setting sun plays off the river quite like this before.

My goodness, life is going by too fast.