This series of photos was taken in April of 2002 from the balcony of the beach house where my sister got married on Pensacola Beach, FL. The view is looking west out onto the Sound.

Taken April 23, 2004. This series was taken after several days of heavy rain which caused the Illinois River to flood out of its banks. The location is in northwestern Washington County, along CR66.

Taken April 23, 2004. Also of the Illinois River flooding, this is along Washington CR62, looking south (main river channel is on the right side of photo). All of the flooded area here is pasture. It shoud be noted here that these pix were taken after the river had went down some earlier in the day.

Taken April 24, 2004. This is a mosaic of about 15 photos of the spring just off the south side of our property. Under baseflow conditions, this spring is just a trickle coming out of the Pitkin limestone. After the storm, however, it sounded like there were Class 4 rapids back there, so I went to check it out, only to find this, and it flowed like this for about 4 days after the rains. Note that my site header is a clip from this mosaic, I just love the way you feel like you are right at the water level, seeing it come pouring out of the spring.