Dangerous Area.

I thought I had been on all of the bike path down by the river but it looks like I hadn't. I was out on my bike going from Casino to Casino and went behind the water company building. It has a tower like a castle and across the river a great view of the old barracks on the Arsenal Island.

Quarters One on the Arsenal Island...really look close.

This is part of the water company building that is on the bike path..I stopped to take this picture and then turned around to get ....

This picture. by the time I was getting ready to take some more a man on his electric scooter come out of the building and up to me and said I had to get moving . Private property and all that...For some reason the Abbott Bannister come to mind when he was talking.

Our Own Desperate Housewife.

The Beginning Or The End

The Start or the finish of the Bettendorf bike path in good old

Riverdale? Yes its a small town north of Bettendorf the Duck Creek is the dividing line between the two and the path ended up on there side at the very end.

a smaller side creek flowing into the Duck

way back there a very pretty water fall

The sandstone along the creek and the little caves that it made along the waterline

Happy May Day

may

This is the picture from my front door for the month of May. I dawned sunny and calm and kinda warm. Then the clouds rolled in and the temps dropped. Yesterday we had high winds and one heck of a storm. No damage that I heard of .

Stuff I Bet You Didn't Know Was Out There

This is along River Dr next to the Arsenal Bridge. Marion was the first American woman killed in the First World War.

Near the corner of River Dr and East 4th street there are two monuments. The one is about the first bridge that went across the Mississippi. The second is about the boat that hit the bridge and the lawsuit that followed. A young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln is one of the lawyers and the case got his name into the public forum. And the rest is history.

Vanderveer Park on a Windy Spring Day

Mother duck and her chicks getting ready to head into the pond

Liliac Garden

Ducks leaving Duck Creek

A Mr and Mrs Duck leaving the Duck Creek. I was about 6 and starting to get dark. They must have been heading back to the nest.

Sister's Garden

Some of the flowers outside my sister's house.How they look before the rabbits get to them

Checking out the Ads

Already the shopper. She's checking out the Sunday ads to see if there is anything that I need to buy for her.

Credit Island

A sail boat out on the Mississippi. On Credit Island looking over into Illinois


the tank and all the standing water
Didn't know what this was at first. Someone flying a kite.


the shelter in about three feet of water. No picnic today



I don't want to walk on that natural trail. I want good old black top. Only God could walk on that trail.

Easter Walk

Went for a walk along the river front after a wonderful Easter dinner.
I was cloudy but 71 out so it wasn't that bad, until we got to the river. The wind was very strong. As we walked we could see the storm front moving in and then the warning sirens went off. It turned out to be just a normal spring shower.



River a little high

and choppy




Resident One on the Arsenal Island. They are thinking of turning it into a bed and breakfast.
The Davenport Sailing club.
Happy and sad

Constance with the camera and her sisters pouting mouth

train tracks and the water works.

The Arsenal bridge and the storm front.

Some Of the Scary Things You See Along The River

April Already

My monthly picture. It's nice not to see any snow.



A wild flower that shows up early every year and is here about a week then gone.

When It Rains It .....

Into each life a little rain must fall. I don't think its suppose to happen in doors.
I had not one but three places that it was leaking from the upstairs neighbours. We think last summer that when they had the high winds that we got hit and shook the house up and cracked the old pipes.

from one end of the room to the other. Don't know what is holding up the ceililng.


pipes stuff and stuff
in the kitchen

not just the ceiling but down the wall .