Cahokia Mounds - Largest City No One Has Heard Of

 Eight miles east of St Louis near Collinsville, Illinois are the Cahokia Mounds.  Site of a prehistoric settlement of Mississippians who created the largest city in America at 20,000..eclipsed only by Philadelphia in 1800.   The visitor center is very interesting and the hike around the grounds totally worth it.  https://cahokiamounds.org

 The largest of the mounds (scroll down) is Monks.  Monks Mound was constructed over a period of three hundred years by the natives using only baskets to carry up the soil.  It covers 14 acres of ground - more than the great pyramid- and is 100 feet tall.

 Monks mound above.

                                The next several shots are Monks Mound.

                    Above, the Skyline of St Louis from the top of the mound.

Still Images From The Eclipse

Taken in Penn Valley Park from 12:15pm to 1:25pm... images from a time lapse series, one photo every seven seconds.

           Above and below....a firetruck made a run through the image area at totality.

And The City Went Dark

Time-lapse taken in Penn Valley Park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2vIM1L1AQ

Skyline

                                           Skyline from Summit Street Bridge.

No Matter The Chaos, We Still Have Flowers

                                 Taken at Kauffman Memorial Gardens yesterday.