Summer & Fall on the Ouachita

Typical Summer View on the Ouachita the banks are covered in lush vegetation
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

 

 

Typical Summer View on the Ouachita after a hard rain upstream
the water will turn a dark brown because of the red clay banks
washing into the river.
Catahouls Parish, Louisiana

 

View of the Ouachita from the banks of
a low swampy area where a fallen moss laden tree
forms a primative silhouette of the river at "buckhorn bend".
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

 

 

 

Mimosa blossoms and sandbar
Caldwell Parish. Louisiana
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Bend in the river near Columbia, Louisiana

 

 

 

 

Stark clay banks overlook the river near "Cutoff Bayou"
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

 

 

 

 

Typical Fall view on the Ouachita south of Monroe, Louisiana

 

 

 

Fall on the Ouachita at the Arkansas-Louisiana Line the stark sandbars
stand out against the changing color of the leaves

 

 

 

 

Fall on the Ouachita
The changing color of the leaves fade into a distant bend
where "bunker hill" overlooks the river.

Catahouls Parish, Louisiana