Near these rows on the contour line is the Mississippi, Missouri divide. To the left, west in the picture, the water flows to the Missouri River. To the right in the picture the water flows to the Mississippi River.



A sunset thrown in.
A screw auger that shucked off a one year old bin stirring auger.

The best for last, the apple pie my wife made this morning.

I did not know that about the "State Divide" - very interesting.

It is a long line, we just happen to farm on some of it.

Watershed delineation boundary, cool

Used to digitize those out with digital elevation model and lidar. Break em down further into sub-watersheds. Even micro-sheds for gravity sewer master plans.

Is that field in one, or two Soil and Water conservation districts?

One I'm sure. We have done tiling, and terraces on both sides.

cool! looks like some good ground there, any loess involved?

I'm not sure, I'm to lazy to look it up. We have rocks if that tells you something.

The pie ain't bad!

How's the water supposed to know which way to flow it looks flatter than piss on a plate That's cool wabbi not a bad place to be in heavy rain when the water flows away in two directions. Nice looking land.

I'd love to have about a thousand acres of that dirt over here!

They are selling 160 acres this week. Better than our farm, under 10, 000 is cheap.

Some river music?

You are pie-wealthy Richard.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

It runs north and south through the State. If you know where you are looking, you can see it from the air. If you take highway 44 west from the south side of Camp Dodge and go to Missouri Valley you will pass over it and there is a sign so designating the line. ON a map I believe it falls between Guthrie Center and Audubon as you are driving Highway 44.

kwg

In 1982 if you had a pile of land that cost you more than $2500 an acre, you went broke.

kwg

Hope you has a big slab of cheese on the side....state law in Wisconsin......

Sam Olson takes much better pictures. Sam makes work look like fun.

It breaks up some boredom, thinking what the fire might like in the evening. It is still work however.

Interesting Wabi,

But that's not topography. A gopher hole could change the course of a mighty river there it looks to me.

Pie. I like Pie. Your wife appears to do a good job on them too. Enjoy.

Geno

So how did the corn do on the divide?

Heard through a friend of my Dad's they were pulling 275 - 300 per acre on creek bottom ground south of Silver City.
Had to slow the combines down to 3mph.....

The corn is doing near 220 an acre. it's not as level as the pictures look. That is why we contour farm.

About the other river.

Richard, the big water hole.


Fort Peck.
(week or two ago)





The creek here at home.

Missouri.
(yesterday)

You have a way with a camera Sam. Does thinking about what you might post here stay on your mind at work?

Richard, if you take 10 pictures of the same scene one will turn out good.

The only way to go!

We need a thread on what camera we use, I'm not sure how to take a picture of my camera.

Series of mirrors to get different angles.

mirror....

Or what apples for baking a pie.

Canon G15.


Fairly inexpensive camera.

Big Jim should be along, beatin'' me at my own game, well a game.

Richard, pictures of snowbanks......

Friggin Havre was 30 below this morning.


It was a beautiful evening though. No wind.


Pictures dont do it justice.

I need to sack out soon, take two pictures, and post in the morning.

Clean, brilliant air.


Crystal clear.


Quite refreshing.

Do you not feel even a tiny bit of guilt for not inviting all of us over to help you with that pie?

Here's a satellite shot centering on Brown's Valley, MN. It's about 10 miles east of here on the SD/MN border. The body of water to the north (top) is Lake Traverse and it flows north. To the south is Big Stone Lake, it flows south. (Both have good fishing.)



North/south continental divide. OK. But what puzzles me is if Traverse flows north from where the road crosses and Big Stone flows south from the same point, where the hell does the water come from?

Looking at the satellite view, it looks like each lake flows toward the other,
with a hill between them. Moraine?

But that would contradict your flow directions.

Any arrowheads on the place????

The Red river valley is a bit of an anomaly. It is a finger extension of the artic watershed. East or West of that valley far to the North of it water flows south.

Good morning Karl, you should post more, you always have bright things to add.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6012966-this-water-goes-north

I enjoyed reading this

Actually what the map shows is fairly flat cropland. Stand on the highway betweem the lakes. If you pee off the north side it goes to Hudson's Bay. Pee off the south side and it goes to the Gulf of Mexico. (At least in that case you know where the water comes from. )

Red River Valley starts at the red dot and runs north. South from the dot is the Whetstone Valley.

We're close to the northern border of the Great Basin. That's a huge area of NV, UT, ID, CA, & a couple other states, over 200,000 square miles, that drains internally. All the creeks evaporate or sink in the ground. It's all essentially desert with some very high and rugged mountains. There's 1 creek, called Salmon Falls Creek, that comes north out of NV and runs close to us. It goes to the Snake River and to the Pacific. Everything on both sides of the creek never makes it to an ocean. The Basin includes the highest and lowest points in the lower 48, Mt Whitney and Death Valley and they're less than 100 miles apart.

If you’re out of vanilla ice cream, I suppose.

We appear to have an irreconcilable difference.