Locks and clocks.....

Mike, being an engineer, is interested in anything mechanical. So while in Cannelton, we had to drive up to the over-look with a view of the locks and dam there.It is called the Eagle Overlook (may not have the name exactly right)

Apparently they have relocated eagles to this area.......

.....unfortunately, all we got was a Turkey Vulture soaring over the dam. Oh, well....probably the wrong time of year for the eagles :-)

The more distant view of the dam and a barge going through the lock below us. The plant on the other side of the river may be a cement plant, according to Mike.

Watching locks and barges can be a full time job if you love being along a river.

I'm always awed by the power of the water rushing through.
The Ohio is a very big river.....running from Pittsburgh, PA down to the point where Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri come together and there it joins the Mississippi River at Cairo, KY more of less.

I had a nice Red-Spotted Admiral butterfly stop on the concrete....maybe warming up?

From there we headed north through the winding country roads and I liked this house on the hill and the cows in the pasture below. Hard to get it all in one shot :-)

The cows.....the sky is too light in all of these.....sorry about that.

Now....why did I mention clocks in the title? We saw a lot of clock towers during our jaunt through the various little towns.

A church in Tell City, I think.

Another one in the distance. The house sort of ruins the shot.

And later the St. Meinrad Archabbey with two clocks!

When I looked at the photos, I mentioned to Mike that the Abbey clocks were at the right time and both the same. He said that all the clocks we saw were at the right time! That was the first that I realized that he had checked his watch at each one!

Mike's dad is a retired watchmaker, so Mike has always had clocks in his life. He says when he was 4 he took his first watch apart.....but didn't put one back together until he was 11 :-) I remember the first time I went to their house. His dad had clocks all over the house that he was working on, and all set at just slightly different times. Every quarter hour clocks would chime all over! What a noise to me, who wasn't used to it! Now I would not even notice probably.

I'll end the post with a photo of a gorgeous Mimosa tree below the Abbey! It had such good color. Some are more pale looking, but this one was really reddish pink and lovely!

I tried for a close-up of a section (I was shooting from the car window...lazy)