Photographs of Stuff
The climate is generally mild in the Mid-South United States.
But the paddler in Memphis can count on at least one or two
snowy sessions each year.  Photo by Elmore Holmes.

When you're up against the evil elements of the industrialized world, sometimes guerilla tactics, including stickers on road signs, are the way to go.  Photo by Elmore Holmes.

The Hernando DeSoto Bridge delivers David Senter and Elmore Holmes safely over the river and back into Memphis after a race on the Arkansas River at Little Rock.  Photo by Joe Royer.

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Photo by Elmore Holmes.

Relics of the mining industry hug the cliffs along the Dolores River near the Colorado-Utah state line.  Photo by Elmore Holmes.
Floating in some Arkansas farmland, Joe Royer snapped this picture of the Memphis skyline the day the Mississippi crested at 38.2 feet in June, 2002.

Badwater Basin: the lowest point in North America.  181 feet below sea level.  Photo by Elmore Holmes.
 


A crane keeps watch over the Ichetucknee River near Gainesville, Florida, on a chilly February day.  Photo by Elmore Holmes.


 

There's another sleepy river town out there.  Rosemary Clark snapped this photo of the Volga River in Russia.

Critters abound along the Colorado River near the entrance to Westwater Canyon in Utah.  Photo by Elmore Holmes.

A pair of hikers explores the Muddy Creek Chute in the San Rafael Swell of central Utah.  Photo by Elmore Holmes.

The war in Iraq will fix this
problem, by golly.  Photo by
Elmore Holmes.
A group of riders approaches the Mississippi River at Meeman Shelby Forest State Park north of Memphis.  Photo by Joe Royer.

Land developers are not known for looking at the Big Picture.  In the summer of 2002, a piece of property that had been cleared and filled by developer Kevin Hyneman slid into Memphis Harbor.  Photo by Elmore Holmes.

Elmore does not recommend using a screwdriver to jimmy
the window of a '95 Astro.  Photo by Elmore Holmes.
People have beheld the power of Oceana Falls, a notable feature of Tallulah Gorge in northern Georgia, for many generations.


Think it over.
 
 

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