Friday, May 4, 2018

Missouri: Ozark Scenic Riverways, Part 2: Alley Mill


Alley Mill, Ozark Scenic Riverways, Missouri. November 2017.


November 2017


Thanksgiving weekend I spent with two brothers, a niece, and my mom in the Ozark Scenic Riverways area. We slept at Echo Bluffs State Park, three of us at the lodge, and two of us in the same real estate as the wild horses.

On Saturday, we visited Alley Mill, one of the National Park Service's sites in the Ozark Scenic Riverways. Alley Mill and Spring is a gorgeous rural space with its eye-catching red mill, the spirit-quenching spring water, gracefully-branched trees, and inviting lawn.


Alley Mill, Ozark Scenic Riverways, Missouri. November 2017.



Alley Mill is picturesque, pleading for promiscuous picture taking (purple prose?), and we arrived at the golden hour for photography. Given the two, golden results should be practically guaranteed.


Alley Mill, Ozark Scenic Riverways, Missouri. November 2017.


There was even a group of traditional Mennonite girls and women who brought some old-timey realia into the frame! Divine providence!

Eh. I just couldn't get a magical shot of that mill despite all of its visual come-hitheriness. 

But the spring channeled Van Gogh.

Alley Mill, Ozark Scenic Riverways, Missouri. November 2017.

Alley Mill, Ozark Scenic Riverways, Missouri. November 2017.


Two pigeons, perhaps overwrought from holiday stresses, squabbled. A video below:




Here is a slide show of our visit to Ozark Scenic Riverways. 

Ozark Scenic Riverways, MO


A side note

We lunched at a diner in Eminence, a nearby town. A tall person hung the mirror in the ladies' room.


Ladies' room in an Eminence diner, Ozark Scenic Riverways, Missouri. November 2017.





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