Monday photo feature

In what now seems like an annual phenomenon, a large portion of my dock is on the ground.  I took this photo while I was down there yesterday morning, when the Mississippi River was flowing at -8.7 feet on the Memphis gauge.

The bright side is that the water is still more than three feet higher than the record low of -12.06 feet that we saw two years ago.  The storm system that came through here Saturday evening stretched well to the north, higher up in the watershed, and while the current forecast isn't showing any rise as a result of that, that rain should at least keep the level somewhat constant for a while, hopefully until some wetter weather moves in.

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