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Wildwood Ridge

Wildwood Ridge – An Introduction

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It has been nearly a year ago now when Cyndie and I moved across town; technically from town [Red Wing] to the adjacent township of Hay Creek.  This has been a long-time coming.  We were looking at bigger homes given that we had both been working from home since the onset of the Covid pandemic.  We were not in any sort of a rush really – just seeing what was out there on the market. 

Our realtor, RedWingHomesForSale.com really took the time to understand what we had been looking for.  It was one that ticked almost all the boxes of what we were looking for.  The only thing missing was a fenced in yard for the four-leggers.  The fence was something we could remedy in short order. The house was in an area we had driven through often, but never imagined that the development was within our reach. 

As it were, the couple that currently owned the house needed to move to Arizona in the Spring of 2023 for work.   They  just had a baby and were not wild about all the potential showings.  This set the stage for a perfect opportunity.  The asking price was fair and that is exactly what we offered; they accepted.  

Fast-forward to April 2023

There was much work leading up to moving day.  Prepping our old house for sale  seemed never-ending.  The some repairs, lots of painting, and moving our things out and staging them elsewhere for showing.  It was a tremendous amount of work, but well worth it.  

lots of offers photo

We were not really sure how quickly our old house would sell.  To say we were astonished by the number of showings once it was listed is an understatement.  We had 20+ showings in only two days which resulted in 10+ offers.  All well over asking; we could not have imagined a better outcome.  We were able to close on both homes on the same day which made this whole process that much better.  

Cyndie & Dan in front of new house

New house in South Oaks

Closing Day

The much anticipated closing day came and went. We were fortunate enough to close on both the old and new house the same day. That said, closing day was on a Friday and the movers were not coming until the following Monday. This gave us some time to get things cleaned, staged and ready. It was a flurry of activity. Everything went fairly smooth other than the late season snow and the hole in the wall at our old house the movers created while extracting the treadmill from the basement.

living room

We had our first dinner on folding chairs with moving boxes for a table. A delicious chicken dinner from a local establishment called Randy’s.

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MUD LAKE – HWY 63 PUCKETVILLE

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MUD LAKE

The recent rains have not made an impact on the water level on the Mississippi River.  The satellite image gives you a sense of where the water line typically is.  I haven’t seen the water this low ever.

Mud Lake

These image where captured August 23rd, 2021.

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SUNSET, COVILL PARK – Red Wing, MN #exploremn #prettyredwing

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SUNSET, COVILL PARK

Red Wing Photography Club September meeting was at Covill Park in Red Wing, MN this evening.  Perfect weather – mid 70s.  Hazy skies no doubt from the massive amounts of forest fires out West.

I shot several series of frames from the Mavic Mini drone for panorama and HDR compositions as well as a few single frame images.

Single Frame Images

Towboat with barge downriver

Dog Poo Bag, an aerial perspective

HDR Images

The dynamic range on the Mavic Mini is not great; bracketing does the trick to make up for its shortcomings.

Covill Bay

Covill Bay | River Valley Marina

Panorama Images

Covill Bay | River Valley Marina

Looking out over barges towards Wisconsin

Towboat with barge downriver

Covill Park, River Valley Marina and Covill Bay Sunset

 

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SUNSET, BEHIND THE FRONT – Red Wing, MN #exploremn

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SUNSET, BEHIND THE FRONT

Off in the distance, a front was drifting by Red Wing Sunday evening as the sun was setting.  The sun was still shinning brightly behind the clouds; shooting rays into the sky.  [click on images to enlarge]

SUNSET, BEHIND THE FRONT

SUNSET, BEHIND THE FRONT

A bit later I shot two more panoramas to capture the full length of the cloud bank (21 frames each).

SUNSET, BEHIND THE FRONT
21 Frames (left)

21 Frames (right)

I then combined them both together into a 42 frame panorama

42 frames

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RED WING, MN – Autumn Sunrise #aerialphotography

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RED WING, MN – Autumn Sunrise

This past Wednesday morning I captured a few 180 degree panoramas of the Autumn sunrise in Red Wing, MN along the Mississippi River.  With all the rain, the river is on the rise once again.  The Mississippi has been high most since the Spring run-off; through the Summer and now into Autumn.

Autumn Sunrise
Bay Point Park Fishing Pier

Autumn Sunrise
The Big Turn

Autumn Sunrise
Red Wing Boathouses

Autumn Sunrise
Riverfront

Autumn Sunrise
Red Wing Bridge Construction

 

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LAKE PEPIN – Foot of the Lake #aerialphotography

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LAKE PEPIN – Foot of the Lake

ake Pepin occupies a valley carved by the waters of Glacial River Warren, which drained Lake Agassiz in a catastrophic flood at the end of the last Ice Age, and to a lesser extent from Lake Duluth, a smaller glacial lake which drained through the present valley of the St. Croix River. When the continental glacier's meltwaters found other outlets to the sea, River Warren was succeeded by the more modest Upper Mississippi, which drains a much smaller basin, and the St. Croix spillway became the present river. Over a long period of time, the deep valley was partially filled with sediments, forming a broad floodplain. In this plain Lake Pepin formed behind a delta comprising sediments deposited into the ancient lake bed by the Chippewa River near the present community of Wabasha at the southern end of the lake. The lake backed up behind this sediment dam as far north as the location of Saint Paul. In the 10,000 years since the lake's creation, ongoing sedimentation into Lake Pepin has caused its upper end to migrate downstream some 80km (50mi) to its present location east (river direction south) of Red Wing, Minnesota.[5]

Lake Pepin occupies a valley carved by the waters of Glacial River Warren, which drained Lake Agassiz in a catastrophic flood at the end of the last Ice Age, and to a lesser extent from Lake Duluth, a smaller glacial lake which drained through the present valley of the St. Croix River. When the continental glacier’s meltwaters found other outlets to the sea, River Warren was succeeded by the more modest Upper Mississippi, which drains a much smaller basin, and the St. Croix spillway became the present river. Over a long period of time, the deep valley was partially filled with sediments, forming a broad floodplain. In this plain Lake Pepin formed behind a delta comprising sediments deposited into the ancient lake bed by the Chippewa River near the present community of Wabasha at the southern end of the lake. The lake backed up behind this sediment dam as far north as the location of Saint Paul. In the 10,000 years since the lake’s creation, ongoing sedimentation into Lake Pepin has caused its upper end to migrate downstream some 50 miles to its present location east (river direction south) of Red Wing, Minnesota. ~wikipedia

You can learn more about sediment issues @ Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance.

LAKE PEPIN – Foot of the Lake
Looking toward MN side of the lake

 

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RED WING, MN – Foggy Morning Sunrise #arielphotography

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RED WING, MN – Foggy Morning Sunrise

RED WING, MN – Foggy Morning Sunrise

I was a bit late for sunrise, but the fog was heavy and flowing nicely through the valley.  Solders Memorial Park on top of Sorin’s Bluff in Red Wing is a perfect location to appreciate the vastness of the fog as it flows along and lifts away.

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RED WING, MN – Mississippi Riverfront #aerialphotography

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RED WING, MN – Mississippi Riverfront

This city was named after the early 19th-century Dakota Sioux chief, Red Wing (Shakea), or Hupahuduta (“Wing of the Wild Swan Dyed Red”).  He was one of a succession of Mdewakanton Dakota chiefs whose name “Red Wing” came from their use of a dyed swan’s wing as their symbol of rank. He was an ally of British soldiers during the War of 1812. After a vision in which he saw the Americans driving out the British, he declared neutrality. French Canadians referred to him as L’Aile Rouge. Later he took the name Shakea, or “The Man Who Paints Himself Red,” after passing the name Red Wing on to a successor chief. ~wikipedia

Red Wing is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, along the upper Mississippi River.  Having lived near the river most of my life, it’s sometime easy to forgot the unique and picturesque features that draw others to the region.

The arrival of riverboats in late Summer

Red Wing Yacht Club Boathouses

Red Wing

Bay Point Park

Red Wing

The Big Turn on the Mississippi River

The Big Turn as seen from Bay Point Park

Barn Bluff (He Mni Can) [L] & Sorins Bluff (Memorial Park) [R]

Red Wing

Mud Lake

Mud Lake

Trenton Island Yacht Club

Trenton Island Yacht Club

Having a drone has re-peaked my interest to photograph the beautiful area where I live.

Red Wing is connected to Wisconsin by the Eisenhower Bridge); it carries U.S. Route 63 over the Mississippi River and its backwaters. ~wikipedia

Construction on the bridge that will replace the Eisenhower Bridge is slated to be complete August 2020.  Based on a Minnesota state statute, the name must remain the Eisenhower Memorial Bridge.

Red Wing

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QUEEN OF THE MISSISSIPPI – Red Wing, MN #aerialphotography

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QUEEN OF THE MISSISSIPPI – Red Wing, MN

At Levee Park over the Labor Day weekend.  Levee Park has looked better.  It has been under construction for some time now; delayed due to flooding most of the Spring/Summer.

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MISSISSIPPI RIVER – Pool #4, Everts Resort #aerialphotography”

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MISSISSIPPI RIVER – Pool #4, Everts Resort

Pool 4 extends from Lock & Dam 4 located near Alma, Wisconsin upstream to Lock & Dam 3 located near Hager City, Wisconsin.

Unlike the Lower Mississippi, much of the upper river is a series of pools created by a system of 29 locks and dams. The structures were authorized by Congress in the 1930s, and most were completed by 1940. A primary reason for damming the river is to facilitate barge transportation. The dams regulate water levels for the Upper River and play a major part in regulating levels on the Lower Mississippi.

Navigation locks allow towboats, barges, and other vessels to transit the dams. Approximately 1350 kilometers (850 mi), from the head of navigation in Mile 858, Minneapolis, Minnesota down to Cairo, has been made suitable for commercial navigation with a depth of 2.75 meters (9 ft) The agriculture and barge transportation industries have lobbied in the late 20th and early 21st centuries for a multi-billion-dollar project to upgrade the aging lock and dam system. Some environmental groups and advocates of budgetary restraint argue that the project lacks economic justification.

Each lock and dam complex creates a pool upstream of it. There are 29 locks on the Upper Mississippi maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—from Upper St. Anthony Falls upstream to Chain of Rocks downstream. The locks provide a collective 123 meters (404 ft) of lift. ~wikipedia

These photos were taken just downriver from Lock & Dam 3 at Everts Resort.  The sunset and clouds were fantastic this last Friday.

Mississippi River Map

Looking downstream towards Everts Resort

Mississippi River Pool 4

Everts Resort

Mississippi River Pool 4

Looking upstream at Lock & Dam 3 off in the distance.  You can see the steam rising from the cooling towers at Prairie Island Nuclear Plant right below the sun.

Mississippi River Pool 4

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