After doing a bunch of yardwork I bolted to the river to walk the sandy shores and see what might happen as far as opportunities for more camera play. I didn’t have much light to work with, and I’d arrived just a little too late to get the sunset angle I wanted from above, so instead I decided to try a funky angle from below.

I’ve been doing a lot of poking around along the river lately as I like to see how the construction of the new bridge is going, and now that the water level of the Missouri River is so low I can find lots of other cool stuff too! For instance, I found what was left of the old wood pilings sticking out of the rocks beneath this bridge, the old Northern Pacific bridge from the 1800s. They’ve had to do extensive work to the Bismarck side of this bridge throughout its history, because the hill keeps sliding. The most recent attempt to shore up the tracks where they meet the hill happened while I was a teenager, and it resulted in the steel beams currently in place.

Perhaps down the road here I’ll post some more of my discoveries from underneath a few of Bismarck’s many bridges. Stay tuned!