I left the road to wander through the woods - here the river is flowing along the base of Crowley's Ridge - through a field of rhododendrons filling the understory of a silent grove of aoks. May 11 Mississippi River Flood of 2011. Photo by Delta Bohemian John Ruskey

I left the road to wander through the woods — here the river is flowing along the base of Crowley’s Ridge — through a field of rhododendrons filling the understory of a silent grove of aoks. May 11 Mississippi River Flood of 2011. Photo by Delta Bohemian John Ruskey