A couple of photos from Mother’s Day Weekend Hill Climb 2019. Next event 2019-09-21 Dist. 16/23 Hillclimb. See Indianhead Motorcycle Club fb page for more details. Indianhead MC is celebration their 70th anniversary by hosting grass drags at GAS-LITE Bar & Grill on 2019-09-28.
Other hill climb events in the area: see Valley Springs Hill Climb fb page. Their next event is 2019-07-13.
Sunrise over Colvill Park Saturday March 30th. I wasn’t sure if I was going to see a sunrise or not. The cloud bank was massive, dark and moving along rapidly. You just never know. I was pleasantly surprised.
Pre-sunrise was very cloudy and not very colorful.
I was surprised that the sun made an appearance. The clouds were think and moving. I was a brief appearance.
Images of Trenton Island by the Woodshed on Friday March 29th, 2019.
Images surrounding Llyod Spriggle Memorial Bridge and Mr. Sippi’s on Friday March 29th, 2019. The water is high and the current moving strong.
Friday morning, March 29th, 2019 sunrise over the Mississippi River flowing high and wide in Red Wing, MN. Scenes from the levee and Bay Point Park.
The Cannon River continues to drop in Welch upstream, but it’s still high and over its banks at Hwy 61 north of Red Wing. These shots were taken Tuesday March 26th. I can see little difference today in the level today.
The setting sun last Saturday cooperated nicely. The clouds and color made a spectacular appearance. The high and wide Mississippi was smooth as glass and reflected the sky nicely.
I Googled the interweb and did not find much information regarding the history of the Red Wing Boat Houses. The only thing I found was an article from the Winona Daily News from July 4th, 2009 – Book traces history of boathouses on the Mississippi. The book referenced in the article, The Floating Boathouses on the Upper Mississippi River: Their History, Their Stories is available on Amazon for $99.96. I probably will not be ordering that any time soon.
I did find some information regarding the Red Wing Yacht Club in an article from Post Bulletin March 13, 2015 regarding the lease to operate in Red Wing Bay. In the article it said:
Kevin Avery, commodore of the yacht club, explained that the club has been in the harbor for 112 years and has 275 members, about 80 percent of them from Red Wing. Nearly all the boats in the harbor are fishing boats or recreational runabouts housed in modest floating boathouses.
Now 116 years – that is some longevity. I’ll have to keep digging for more information on the yacht cloud and boat houses.
I did find a copy of Friends and Neighbors All: Brief History of the Red Wing Yacht Club Special Edition for $250 if anyone is interested in that. Yikes.
If anyone has any information about the Red Wing boat houses or any others on the Mississippi feel free to leave a link in the comments.
The high bridge and levee are both under construction at the moment. This will be interesting given the rising water from the Spring snow melt.
I witnessed a nice sunrise along Highway 61 in Red Wing adjacent to Barn Bluff.
The launch Pad
